Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:34:51 -0400 From: madodel at ptdprolog.net Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: SVISTA(TM) Virtual Machine -- Alternative to VMWare(R) and Virtual PC(R) Released From: "Bob St.John" http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/preview.jsp?resourceid=2803605 Lewisville, TX SVISTA(tm) Virtual Machine -- Alternative to VMWare(r) and Virtual PC(r) Released Serenity Systems International (SSI) has announced the release of their Serenity Virtual Station(tm), SVISTA(tm), family of virtual machine products, http://www.serenity-systems.com . This is the latest entry into the hot field of virtual machine software which allows users to run multiple operating systems on their PC. A field dominated by VMWare(r) and Microsoft's Virtual PC(r). "I have a lot of respect for the market leaders. But we have a value proposition which allows us to compete. Part of our strategy is to go into areas not well served by other products", according to Bob St.John, Director of Business Development for SSI. "For example, some Citrix(r) users have tested the product and found it to be surprisingly responsive in that environment. This opens the door for organizations running Citrix on thin clients to extend the application support available. By providing these users with a complete desktop, including the complete operating system, applications which run on fat clients or additional versions of Windows, including NT 3.51, NT4, and Windows 3.1, can be supported. SVISTA also supports DOS, Linux, OS/2, and FreeBSD, greatly increasing the applications available to thin client users which, in turn, may significantly improve the return on their investment in Citrix products. What allows SVISTA to be so Citrix friendly is the relatively small hardware footprint required. This is combined with an architecture which allows multiple VMs to run on the same hardware while providing a responsive desktop to the user. This has some value to every user but it makes SVISTA especially useful in shared environments, like Citrix and Linux Terminal Services . In fact, the greatest interest in SVISTA has focused on its support for Linux Terminal Services. Likely because this provides these users with support for Windows and other non-Linux applications. "There is a very interesting presentation on our homepage and on http://www.serenityvirtual.com under Presentations and other information. It is called IBM EWWS presentation on Desktop Virtualization (PDF, 500 kB). It is a presentation by IBM which accurately represents how SVISTA is being implemented by IBM Global Services in several financial organizations in Germany and Austria." according to St.John. SVISTA's "Virtual Client Pool"(tm), as outlined in the presentation, is unique in the industry and offers flexibility which many organizations, large and small, will find interesting. "Our focus right now is finding solid services partners. Groups providing services who can recognize the value these products offer to their customers. We want to contact them and move forward with a training and certification program which will help them to help their clients." said St.John. Evaluation software option appears at the bottom of the SHOP link on http://www.serenityvirtual.com -- Warpstock Europe 2004, Arnhem, The Netherlands, November 26-28th, 2004 http://www.warpstock.net Warpstock 2005 - Where/When? Stay tuned to http://www.warpstock.org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end Or, visit http://www.os2voice.org/MailingLists.html If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org