Virtual Macs
Citrix has announced two
applications for the iPhone which are virtually quite
interesting.
The first is called Citrix Receiver which is a secure client
application that allows you to run Windows applications over a Citrix
network. Citrix also unveiled an "App Store" for IT applications called
Dazzle allowing managers to offer specific applications to their clients on
both Mac and Windows. Dazzle and the Receiver application for Macintosh
will be on the Apple site in the second half of this year.
The outfit
has released a demo of their new virtualisation software XenClient for the
Mac which will enable the Mac to run Microsoft's Windows in conjunction with
Mac OS X. Apparently it is a faster and more secure virtualisation
software than is around at the moment.
Parallel's and VMWare's
virtualisation software needs to run under a host operating system such as
Mac OS X. XenClient runs directly on the "bare metal" hardware.