Update 4th November 2012: Added and edited some.
I’m a big fan of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) to RDP efficiently to all my servers. I wrote a little about it while it still was an “Microsoft internal only” app here.
But what about the alternatives? Well, I did some research and here are the ones I found. Many of them support more protocols than RDP, like VNC, Citrix, SSH etc. Pricing is usually including 1 year maintenance and the company license is for one site.
| Product | Price 1 user |
Price 1 company |
Comment |
Last version/date *) |
| ASG-Remote Desktop | $113 | $2497 | Also need maintenance, add $16 / $350. Only for 1 country. Cheaper to buy company license when more than 26 admins. All prices here. | 2012 Patch 6 4 Jan 2012 |
| CoRD | – | – | Only for MAC OS X. Maybe you’re not happy with the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for MAC? | 0.5.7 25 Jul 2012 |
| MuRD | $35 | – | Doesn’t seem to be developed anymore so there migh be better alternatives. | 2.1.1.2 2 Dec 2008 |
| RDCMan | – | – | 2.2 27 May 2010 |
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| RD Tabs | – | – | 2.1.25 17 May 2012 |
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| Remote Desktop Manager | $70 | $1100 | 7.6.3.0 18 Sep 2012 |
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| Royal TS | $35 | $560 | 2.1.4 20 Sep 2012 |
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| Terminals | – | – | 2.0 7 Mar 2012 |
*) Last version is the version available when this post last was edited. If date not found at the actual download page, I also tried to investigate when it was released either by checking release noted, in their forum or dates of files downloaded. Please comment if incorrect.
Updates:
– visionapp was renamed to ASG-Remote Desktop
– mRemote was removed since it has merged with Royal TS.
What is your favorite?
When it comes to remote desktop client to use from computer then my favorite is Remote Desktop Client from Microsoft.
For Nokia phones exist RDP client for Symbian OS S60 5th – SymRDP from http://www.telexy.com This software works remarkable well on my Nokia 5800 phone.
There is another version of mRemote available – mRemoteNG. It is available here: http://www.mremoteng.org. It is a fork of the original mRemote with bug fixes & new features.
http://www.Thinomenon.com/products/RemoteDesktopClient/