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Mittwoch Mai 11, 2005

More details and opinions about the Tarantella acquisition
InformationWeek writes:
"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."

CNETAsia writes:
"With Tarantella, Sun hopes its Sun Ray product will be more useful because it will be able to run Windows, mainframe and other applications. "We'd like the volumes to be higher," Loiacono said of Sun Ray sales."

I-Newswire writes:
"Using Tarantella's technology and Solaris, more customers like Time Warner Cable, Qualcomm and the US Department of Defense will be able to implement Sun's innovative Sun Ray ultra-thin clients with full Microsoft interoperability as well as access to their Mainframe, Linux and other applications.

The acquisition will further Sun's strategy to deliver the most comprehensive set of services for Solaris; from traditional system services, to application, naming, directory, availability and now interoperability and mobility services. More than 1.3 million licenses of Solaris 10 have been distributed since January 31, 2005. It is certified to run on more than 375 non-Sun hardware platforms, runs on AMD x64, Intel Xeon and Sun's SPARC processor architectures and is priced less than either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SuSE Linux."

Computerworld writes:
"Loiacono said Tarantella has 12,000 customers and technology that works "on virtually all applications, networks and devices," including PCs, thin clients, handsets or automobile dashboards -- "anything with a Java-enabled browser.""

See also Sun's feature story and Jonathan's blog!
( Mai 11 2005, 06:19:16 AM CEST ) Permalink

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