Tarantella has actually been around for a couple of years. They were a subsidiary of SCO but their product is really starting to take off. And now that SCO is falling under, I imagine this is a refocus of the company on a different flagship product.
In regards to the Tarantella server, it is middleware which, when dropped into a workgroup, will web-enable Windows and *NIX applications automatically (assuming you have Windows Terminal Server). You can write a document with Microsoft Word and then switch over to Konsole to do some administrative work. I saw a demo of it at a showcase and it works wonderfully and seems very easy to use. It's slow but usable over a modem connection, but over a LAN, it's great! I encourage you to download the evaluation version available on the website http://tarantella.sco.com/dl-files/choice.html.
The HST should definately be considered one of the greatest hacks of all time! NASA launches an expensive telescope and didn't grind the lens correct so what do they do? They build a contact lens for it. Whoever thought of that idea is a genius. What simplicity!! And the satellite has been beaming back beautiful pictures ever since... well.... until it's gyroscopes failed. But no one is perfect.
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Tarantella has actually been around for a couple of years. They were a subsidiary of SCO but their product is really starting to take off. And now that SCO is falling under, I imagine this is a refocus of the company on a different flagship product.
In regards to the Tarantella server, it is middleware which, when dropped into a workgroup, will web-enable Windows and *NIX applications automatically (assuming you have Windows Terminal Server). You can write a document with Microsoft Word and then switch over to Konsole to do some administrative work. I saw a demo of it at a showcase and it works wonderfully and seems very easy to use. It's slow but usable over a modem connection, but over a LAN, it's great! I encourage you to download the evaluation version available on the website http://tarantella.sco.com/dl-files/choice.html.
The HST should definately be considered one of the greatest hacks of all time! NASA launches an expensive telescope and didn't grind the lens correct so what do they do? They build a contact lens for it. Whoever thought of that idea is a genius. What simplicity!! And the satellite has been beaming back beautiful pictures ever since... well.... until it's gyroscopes failed. But no one is perfect.