Santa Cruz, CA recently announced that Tarantella 1.3, the new release of its award-winning Tarantella web-enabling software ("Tarantella") allows administrators to significantly ease the job of publishing Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server (WTS) applications to Windows clients. In addition to adding support for WTS, Tarantella 1.3 also includes enhanced security, providing fast, secure access to data and applications for all users.
"Most of our enterprise customers have heterogeneous computing environments, which in many cases include Windows Terminal Server to centrally run Windows applications," said Ray Anderson, SCO senior vice president, marketing. "With Tarantella, they can now easily publish their business critical applications to users, regardless of the platform running the application. Tarantella 1.3 expands the range of applications to include those running on WTS, as well as the previously supported UNIX system and mainframe 3270 applications."
"Organizations have installed solutions on many different platforms," said Dan Kusnetzky, program director for International Data Corporation`s operating environments and serverware services, "they are looking for ways to simplify their lives by being able to make those solutions available regardless of what they`ve deployed on the desktop. Adding Tarantella gives administrators a single tool they can use to deploy all of their applications, whether they are UNIX system, mainframe or Windows applications. This will certainly lower the costs of administration. Users, on the other hand, gain the benefit of a single webtop to access all of their applications."
Dramatically Reduce Time Required to Publish Windows Applications
Users are shifting applications from Windows on the desktop to Windows Terminal Server, to avoid the fat client problems associated with Windows on the desktop. Tarantella 1.3 allows administrators to publish and manage applications on multiple servers from a central location, using only a single drag and drop, similar to how Tarantella currently publishes and manages UNIX system and mainframe applications. This creates a dramatic time savings over the current, complex method of deploying Windows applications. For example, with Tarantella an administrator uses the Tarantella Control Center to create a Windows application object, and then publishes the application to any number of Windows clients with a simple drag & drop action. This saves numerous steps over the existing method of creating specific files for each user and application combination, followed by distributing & installing the files for each individual user, and then modifying each Windows client registry.
Adding further value to the standard Microsoft methodology, Tarantella intelligently spreads the user load across a group of WTS servers. This saves administrators the burden of partitioning users across multiple servers, and frees users from the additional requirement of knowing which server they must use. Enhanced security features in Tarantella 1.3 allow system administrators to extend the certificate authority and take advantage of their own certification methods as well as the industry-standard methods of certification.
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