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HP Will Discontinue 'HP Anyware' Remote Desktop, Trusted Zero Clients (hp.com) 31

Posted by EditorDavid from the end-of-life dept.
kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes: HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued.
"Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will continue until 31 October, 2029," a href="https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life">according to HP's announcement.

But HP is also announcing the planned End of Life for Anyware Trust Center and Trusted Zero Clients, with support now limited to setup and troubleshooting, no new updates or patches, and support ending in a little over six months on October 31, 2026. While for Desktop Access customers — Tera2 Zero Clients and PCoIP Management Console — "the previously announced EOL date remains December 31, 2029," sales have already ended for other customers. HP Anyware renewals are available for purchase through October 31 of 2027, but with a maximum one year term, with support ending October 31, 2028.

HP says the decision "enables us to focus our resources on product categories where we can deliver the greatest customer value and drive long-term innovation."
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  • Acquire then discontinue (Score:3)

    by 0xG ( 712423 ) on Sunday April 19, 2026 @11:41AM (#66101286)

    What a winning strategy. /s
    HP is looking more and more like CA.

    • Acquire and discontinue has long been the HP model.
    • It is a game as old as civilization- embrace extend extinguish

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by keltor ( 99721 ) *
      This is the PC and Printer business, the entire rest of the software directly related to PC and Printers was already divested into HPE (or was already spun into Agilent), even HPE kicked out a bunch of software over to Micro Focus and OpenText (who promptly bought Micro Focus.)

      I'm sure they have tried to sell it and nobody was buying. They are also struggling to make money despite being the #2 PC vendor (globally.)

      Unless you are an extremely profitable company that has reason to raise margin, there's NO re
    • They buy them for the customers.

      What you do is you buy a company who has a lot of locked in customers for the next 5-7 years. For the first two years, you keep the rest and vest employees who perform to the bare minimum until they can cash out. Then the customers start leaving one by one. When the cost of maintaining the product gets high, you hire 5 people from India to take over. You then wait for all service agreements to expire and you end it.

      PCoIP never stood a chance. HP likes to sell boxes and lots o
  • How was that bad link allowed in there?

  • My 100% remote company relies on this software. I guess they don't like money.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by kriston ( 7886 )

      So does Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream! Probably Amazon Luna, too, which is essentially a remote desktop solution tuned for videogames.

      Teradici PCoIP is so good you don't even feel the latency, and I've used and tested every remote desktop solution available.

      This is a tragedy for remote desktop solutions if you ask me.

      • Yeah the more I think about this the more I am outraged that they would discontinue a very useful product. They should be forced to sell it or open source it.

  • Monkey See, Monkey Buy Other Monkey's Copy is not and never has been a winning strategy.

    They would have got more value out of a version of VNC.

    And HP's marketspeak that it "enables us to focus our resources on product categories where we can deliver the greatest customer value and drive long-term innovation" - has never, ever fooled anyone.

    If you are the one approving a press release, here's simple advice. If it, anywhere, contains the words "drive", "deliver", "value" and/or "innovation", then immediately send it back. And if it contains more than one, fire the person who brought it to you - that person will never be able to innovate, drive or deliver actual value.

    • That is because they do not want their press release to do any of those things. They want it to confuse, obfuscate, and say nothing. Writing press releases is a separate skill from actually running a business. Unfortunately, all too often the people with that as their primary skill end up in senior positions.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by PCM2 ( 4486 )

      They would have got more value out of a version of VNC.

      Perhaps, but PCoIP was a specialized protocol aimed mostly at niche markets. Graphics production for Hollywood movies was one, where leaks of pre-released materials could sink the whole project. With PCoIP, you can distribute your graphics work across multiple independent studios, and none of them actually keeps any of the assets on their own machines. They're essentially doing their high-res graphics work on thin clients.

      Another market was testing for higher education, for similar security reasons. People

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by keltor ( 99721 ) *
        Ultimately Teradici sold itself to it's largest partner who still couldn't make enough money to keep it running.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by kriston ( 7886 )

        Wow, I hope they open-source their technology including their PCI-over-IP sub-protocol.

      • HP simply has no idea what Teradici is.

        I've wanted to buy Teradici for a couple of architecture studios that I work with. The idea being the heavy-duty CAD workstations will live in a rack in a climate-controlled room, and all of the architects will work on a cheap desktop PC, or on their laptops from wherever they are.

        I've spoken to HP directly, multiple times, and no-one could give me a straight answer as to what SKUs I needed to purchase, or even what the hardware requirements would be for a simple studi

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by kriston ( 7886 )

      VNC simply cannot compare to Teradici PCoIP. Even the hyper-optimized UltraVNC cannot compete with it.

      NoMachine is closer to Teradici in performance but by a distant margin.

  • Just stop letting them do it. It's not a right, we can just say no.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by PPH ( 736903 )

      This.

      The Supreme Court has said that corporations are people. Abraham Lincoln said we can't buy and sell people. Something has got to give.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      No, just make the copyrights/patents non-transferable, so only a license can be sold.

  • Does it compete with other HP products? Seems like a waste of money to just throw it away.

  • HP says the decision "enables us to focus our resources on product categories where we can deliver the greatest customer value and drive long-term innovation."

    It would be less insulting if they dispensed with the intelligence-insulting bullshit and just said "We decided it would be more profitable for us to pull the plug, and we really don't care about customer satisfaction or well-being anyway, so sorry, not sorry.

    I mean, it's HP. This NOT happening would be unexpected.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by keltor ( 99721 ) *
      HP Inc doesn't make any money though, instead they are just slowly losing more money.

  • RGS hasn't had much new development and doesn't do wayland.
    Will it now see work or will it wither on the vine?

    • RGS hasn't had much new development and doesn't do wayland. Will it now see work or will it wither on the vine?

      RGS will supposedly get new development icluding Wayland support, they're even sunsetting the zCentral Remote Boost name in favor of RGS. Its too bad about HP Anyware, not only did you have clients for MacOS, Windows and Ubuntu, but the remote workstation could be RHEL, MacOS or Windows. RGS Sender only works on RHEL and Windows.

  • Teradici is actually a really good product, and the performance is amazing.
    HP don't seem to know what it is, what to do with it or how to sell it.
    I've attempted to buy Teradici for a number of clients over the years, dealing directly with HP, and no-one has known anything about it, what licensing is required for a simple setup, or what other hardware and software requirements there are beyond the marketing copy on the website.

    I've demoed it, and actively wanted to give HP my money and they couldn't work out

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