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XDS - a new take on access virtualization: XDS - a new take on access virtualizationisn't this just like a SunRay?Sun offered this technology years ago. The Sun Ray is just a remote rendering of your screen sent from a server. That suffered from high network demand when it was launched, but as network costs have...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Sun Ray, SCO Group Inc., SunRay, Tarantella Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., network, server, virtualization; Discussion threads 2007-07-10
Tarantella's Secure Global Desktop: Terminal Services Edition - Integration Testing: Tarantella's Secure Global Desktop SGD Terminal Service Edition TSE is a thin-client management product that extends the functionality of Microsoft Windows Terminal Server WTS. Unlike Citrix MetaFrame MF which uses its own ICA protocol, SGD builds on the existing terminal services remote desktop protocol RDP. The purpose of this paper...; Tags: Desktop, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., Thin Client, Tarantella Inc., Integration, Terminal Services, Thin Clients, Hardware; White papers 2004-07-29
Sun Case Study: WorldCom: WorldCom investigated how it could open up its network management applications so customers could remotely access the information they need. It was discovered that the only way of doing this would be by web-enabling the applications and making them available through a private intranet. WorldCom estimated it would cost $60...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Tarantella Inc., WorldCom Inc., Network Management, Telephony, Network Administration, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications; Case studies
Sun Case Study: Air China: Air China, with more than ten subsidiaries domestically and internationally, is China's biggest air carrier and boasts the country's largest company assets and highest-throughput traffic volume. Air China needed to provide its staff with efficient and secure access to a variety of existing business applications, without expensive and time- consuming...; Tags: China, Sun Microsystems Inc., Tarantella Inc., Strategic Planning, Tools & Techniques, Application Servers, Asset Management, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations; Case studies
Freedesk.com Bases Successful ASP Business Model on Tarantella Web-Enabling Software: Located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, FreeDesk.com is an Application Service Provider ASP that specializes in providing free, web-based solutions. FreeDesk.com provides a service that allows access to powerful office applications via the Internet from any computer, anytime, through any supported browser. Users can either rent or buy the FreeDesk.com applications...; Tags: Web, Microsoft ASP, Tarantella Inc., Freedesk.com, Channel Management, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Marketing, Internet; Case studies

Sun Case Study: Meyn Foods: Meyn Foods wanted to give remote employees access to the same diverse mix of applications and data that headquarters employees enjoy. The Netherlands-based company also needed to spend minimal time and money on custom programming and client software. A portal powered by Sun ONE Portal Server, Tarantella Enterprise 3 software,...; Tags: Food, Sun Microsystems Inc., Tarantella Inc., Sun ONE, Sun ONE Portal Server, Portal Server; Case studies
Sun Case Study: NYFIX: As a leading provider of electronic trading and infrastructure technologies to the institutional trading community, NYFIX provides its global clients with solutions to enter, manage, route and execute orders through its network. NYFIX's ?agship products, industry-leading trading applications for the Financial Information Exchange FIX, needed to be accessible to Fortune...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Tarantella Inc., NYFIX, Tools & Techniques, Application Servers, Financial Planning, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance; Case studies
Sun Case Study: City of Paderborn: The city of Paderborn, Germany needed a way to consistently and easily provide the 45 diverse schools in its municipality centralized access to educational and productivity software, even though there was a mixture of UNIX and Microsoft Windows-based applications. Introduced to Tarantella by its local Sun Microsystems education reseller, the...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Tarantella Inc., Sun Solaris, Operating Systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Software, Hardware; Case studies
Sun Case Study: PepsiCo Snacks: PepsiCo, Inc., is one of the world's most successful consumer products companies with 116,000 employees, and revenues of over $20 billion in 1999. When PepsiCo Snacks Argentina, (a division of Frito-Lay Argentina) upgraded from a client/server model to a web-based architecture, it chose Tarantella Enterprise II over Citrix MetaFrame for...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Tarantella Inc., PepsiCo, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management; Case studies
Tarantella Grows Global Sales Utilizing Sage CRM SalesLogix: When Tarantella's new president took the helm, he realized that Tarantella needed a CRM tool. He was familiar with Sage CRM SalesLogix, having used it successfully in three previous companies. After consulting with a Sage Software business partner, an irresistible selling point emerged. Sage CRM SalesLogix could be provided as...; Tags: Sage CRM SalesLogix, Tarantella Inc., Sage Software, Sales, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software; Case studies

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Catbird secures virtualized environments: A short while ago, I had a wonderful conversation with Edmundo Costa, CEO, and Tamra Newberger, VP of marketing, of Catbird , about a new product they were launching. Since I've spoken with them many times in the past when they were associated with Tarantella and the Santa Cruz Operation,...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-07-05
SCO vs. IBM: clarity as push approaches shove: SCO vs. IBM: clarity as push approaches shoveEstoppelMurph, you misunderstand the key point of the "statute of limitations" issue. If AT&T had, indeed, intended that the contract prohibited IBM from publicly disclosing its own inventions (e.g. RCU), then they had the opportunity fifteen years ago to tell IBM not...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, SCO Group Inc., IBM Corp., Caldera Systems Inc., statute, Murph, Linux; Discussion threads 2007-03-12
IBM issues subpoenas for tech giants' SCO dealings: IBM issues subpoenas for tech giants' SCO dealingsThat would ruin everything!The one thing that has changed is that the SCO "IP" licenses are now demonstrably worthless since SCO has dropped any claims that there is any of "their" copyrighted code in Linux.The copyright claims that remain in their suit against...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc., IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-02-22
How to deploy Windows software on Sun Ray: How to deploy Windows software on Sun RayPhoto CreditThe dual head Sun Ray photo came from Jason Jones at Strategic Technologies Inc. -Thanks!Missed oneYou can also run VMware sessions on shared servers, which is cheaper than Citrix. Since the VMware session is an X application, it shares very nicely...; Tags: Operating systems, Terminal services, Servers, Rdesktop, software, SUN Now, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows, server, Citrix Systems Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-02-10
How to deploy Windows software on Sun Ray: Here's the core bit from the question I got: I'm doing some research for my Unix/Linux Administration class, and I'm wondering about Smart Displays. I'm looking for more information on how to run Windows and Unix programs on them simultaneously and I'm assuming that there...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows, Sun Ray, Unix; Blog posts 2006-02-10
Web-based Office? Forget it. Online apps will be collaborative and intuitive.: Following up on Richard Macmanus' recent post about the new crop of Web-based versions of Word and other Office apps, Phil Wainewright says that kind of thinking is barking up the wrong tree. What office users need - as opposed to cubicle users - is the ability to collaborate,...; Tags: Government, Web; Blog posts 2005-09-28
Why have a desktop machine anyway?: Recent news reports regarding organizations, both public and private, who were impacted by the Zotob and Rbot worms is disconcerting. To the uninitiated, those who were affected did not practice good patch management. However, those in the trenches know that keeping up with patches, especially at...; Tags: desktop; Blog posts 2005-09-08
Spring M&A fever. Is something in the water?: I can't remember a week in recent history when so many deals were closed between technology companies. Here's the list of what I know about. It's probably only a partial list. Yesterday, Sun acquired the assets of storage solution provider Procom Technology for $50 million and then today...; Tags: acquisition; Blog posts 2005-05-10
Novell: SCO's wrong about SuSE deal: Novell: SCO's wrong about SuSE dealIt's all fun until someone loses an eyeThe industry should have seen this comming. It started with Microsoft and everyone cheered... now the legal muck left over from that encounter is encouraging competitors to use the legal system instead of being big-boys and making a...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SuSE, SCO Group Inc., Novell Inc., Darl McBride, David Boies; Discussion threads 2003-11-19
Performance of Remote Display Mechanisms for Thin Client Computing: The growing popularity of thin-client systems makes it important to determine the factors that govern the performance of these thin-client architectures. To assess the viability of the thin-client computing model, we measured the performance of six popular thin-client platforms—Citrix MetaFrame, Microsoft Terminal Services, Sun Ray, Tarantella, VNC,...; Tags: Performance, Thin Client Computing, Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware; White papers 2002-04-10