[THIN] Re: Sun Acquires Tarantella!
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 15:53:08 +0100
Do you mean Sun's use / implementation of X11, or X11 in general?
Neil
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> I wonder how this will pan out in the future regards X11?
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> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tim Mangan
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> This sounds like a good move on both sides. I guess
> we'll have to wait and see if Sun can make sufficient use of it.
>
> tim
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> Subject: [THIN] Sun Acquires Tarantella!
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> Huge news!
> JK
>
> Sun Snatches Thin-Client Software Maker Tarantella
>
> Tarantella software is designed to provide access to
> server-based applications and could help Sun's
> utility-computing strategy.
>
> By Larry Greenemeier, InformationWeek
> <http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=4RALZYUXPQZDAQSNDB
> NCKH0CJUMEKJVN>
> May 10, 2005
> URL:
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?article
> ID=163100755
> <http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articl
> eID=163100755>
>
> Sun Microsystems is looking to advance its
> utility-computing strategy through the acquisition of
> Tarantella Inc., a provider of software used by desktop PCs
> and other client devices to access and manage data over the
> Web. Sun expects the transaction, worth about $25 million, to
> close by September.
>
> Tarantella's Secure Global Desktop software is designed
> to provide secure access to server-based applications running
> on Linux, Unix, Microsoft Windows, mainframe, and midrange
> operating systems. Like competitor Citrix Systems,
> Tarantella's business revolves around providing thin-client
> devices with access to enterprise applications and
> information residing on back-end servers.
>
> Although Tarantella's market presence has been on the
> decline, Secure Global Desktop is used by companies that
> espouse the server-based computing model that Sun has
> promoted to, in part, compete with competitors Dell,
> Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, all of which relied on a PC
> business at one time and were heavily indebted to Microsoft
> for their desktop operating systems.
>
> With Tarantella's technology, applications aren't
> stored or run locally on a PC. Users access their
> applications through a Web browser by authenticating
> themselves to a server running Tarantella's software. Once
> they're authenticated, users access their applications
> through an HTML-based desktop which allows them access only
> to the apps they have permission to use.
>
> The acquisition of Tarantella ultimately will make it
> easier for Sun customers to deploy desktops that run either
> open-source StarOffice applications or those from Microsoft,
> says David Friedlander, a Forrester Research senior analyst.
> In the short term, Tarantella's Global Secure Desktop won't
> deliver much incremental revenue to Sun, but longer term, it
> could help Sun's overall desktop strategy.
>
> The move also puts Sun's R&D and marketing engines
> behind technology developed by Tarantella, which had
> unsuccessfully tried to compete with Citrix in the $2 billion
> annual software market for server-based computing, Friedlander says.
>
> Tarantella began its life as Santa Cruz Operation Inc.,
> which in August 2000 sold its Unix server software and
> services divisions, as well as UnixWare and OpenServer
> operating systems, to Caldera Systems Inc. Santa Cruz
> Operations renamed itself Tarantella and focused on producing
> Web-enabled terminal-services applications. Caldera,
> meanwhile, renamed itself The SCO Group, developed technology
> for running Unix on x86-based servers, and has become
> infamous for a multibillion-dollar Linux-related lawsuit against IBM.
>
> It's been an active week on the acquisition front for
> Sun. The company earlier this week
> <http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articl
> eID=163100176> said it's buying intellectual-property rights
> to network-attached storage technology from Procom Technology
> for about $50 million.
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