UK Lab Responsible for VNC To Close

NexUK writes "Guardian Online has an article about the imminent closure of the UK based AT&T lab , the place that brought us VNC, the popular desktop remote control system. The article talks about a nice "Toys" budget where the employees could buy gadgets without prior authorization." AT&T Strikes again, I'm surprised they haven't bought PARC and closed it down too.

Comments

Re:fp?

[n9hmg]

It can't die. It may not be as well-supported, but there are several other projects working on the "platform" (notably TightVnc. I hope it isn't in some kind of freakish licensing where they go out of business in a fire sale, get bought by NA (remotely possible) or Symantec(pcanywhere) and locked away forever.

The problem

[NitsujTPU]

I bet that a lot of these labs aren't "profitable." The average user, now, has little use for such devices. Most of my friends kind of wow over the x-window system, and that I can use my own computer remotely, or ssh for that matter.

So what happens? Well, 20 years from now, everyone will have keyboards over rf to their tv's with their computer interfaces on them. Today it's useful to me, so I have to rig it myself. None of them will want it for 20 years, because they don't have a "reason."

Re:TightVNC is Good Version

[Xofer D]

TightVNC [tightvnc.com] adds variable JPG compression and is optimized for slow connections.

It was also broken when I tried it a couple months ago. It doesn't update the display properly, it fails to draw the display sometimes, and it just plain doesn't work. I tried it, then went back to plain old VNC.