Hi, System access is made by a company calledSaratec . They are best known as the makers of the Freedom box family of products. You can find their website at the following link. http://serotek.com/
Pranav -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Syed Imran Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] Carry your desktop wherever you go System access? Where is it available? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pranav Lal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Carry your desktop wherever you go > Hi all, > > In accessibility terms, most of these applications are not accessible. > The > only screen reader that can support such environments is system access. > > Pranav > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mohammed Asif > Iqbal > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AI] Carry your desktop wherever you go > > business-standard > > > Priyanka Joshi / New Delhi September 04, 2007 > > OFFICE LIFE: Online desktops could be the next big step in the IT > revolution > - bandwidth permitting. > > Virtualisation is fast touching data centres, but it's the desktop where > the > next round of advances is expected. For now, the offtakes of virtual > desktops > or online desktops appears slow. > > A couple of strong-willed companies like Nivio and Red Hat are busy > pumping > money into research and development and marketing, so as to get the > product > right for the masses, but the buying proposition for online desktops is > yet > to be clarified to the 40 million internet subscribers in India. > > Online desktops are best described as operating systems that keep all > their > information online. Using virtual desktop services, a user can take his PC > environment > to different machines (including mobile phones) without physically > transferring data. > > For instance, if he logs into a newly-installed computer, or is > travelling, > his PC environment will be waiting for him, with no set-up to redo. If you > find > moving information between machines painful, then consider using an online > desktop. > > "Thanks to online desktops, software and files no longer run on users' > individual computers or local file servers. Instead, all applications, > data, > email > and are delivered from a managed data centre. IT is thus centralised and > simplified, and all you need is an internet connection," explains Sachin > Duggal, > CEO, Nivio. > > The company is offering a virtual Windows XP environment to users at Rs > 399 > (per month), where one can select software suites like Microsoft Office, > Adobe > tools, instant messengers, security software and multimedia applications, > among others. > > A Red Hat spokesperson says that the company is preparing to release in > India this month the new Global Desktop that over time will grow into an > online > desktop, integrating online services into a client desktop platform. > > Red Hat has teamed up with Intel for the platform. Local PC manufacturers > will build the actual systems, which will target small businesses and > governments > in emerging economies, while the software will be made available on > Intel's > Classmate PC, a low cost notebook computer for students. > > "Integrating the online services with local data is what we will provide > for > our next-generation online desktop," explains the Red Hat spokesperson, > adding, > "We won't be recreating a Windows paradigm, but delivering a customised > Linux desktop instead." > > Red Hat has planned online Linux desktops in around seven regional > languages > in India, so that it can convince users and government institutions to > invest > money. > > Nivio seems to have gathered some steam, having raised over $3.5 million > through private equity. Earlier, the company had voiced its intentions of > raising > $5 million to fuel expansion, a search for investment that ended with AMD > investing an "undisclosed sum" in R&D. Red Hat will also be announcing > tie-ups > in India to promote its global PC. > > "We think that migration from local applications to rich, collaborative > online services such as Google Apps and Flickr potentially represents a > huge > opportunity > for open source on the desktop. So we're working to define and implement a > contemporary desktop experience for this connected world," says the Red > Hat > spokesperson. > > Also striking an optimistic note, Duggal says, "If you like web-based > instant messengers, why stop there? Web-based operating isn't a bad idea > either." > Nivio targets registering 100,000 users by end-December 2007. > > Nivio's business model will be structured on selling storage beyond the > five > gigabytes that comes free and selling subscriptions to a forthcoming > enterprise > version of the service. Duggal says his company works on the belief that > IT > should be a commodity accessible to all regardless of socio-economic > circumstances. > > But first, companies need to ensure that they bundle a broadband > connection > with the online desktop products. While Nivio is already working on the > concept, > Red Hat seems to have no plans to tie-up with internet service providers. > One close competitor here would be Sify, which recently launched Sify > Anywhere, > which too works on the virtual PC environment idea. > > One wonders: what is the real target market for the online desktop? > Emerging > markets may seem the likely answer. > > But the fact that these markets are plagued by low or no bandwidth > availability, extreme conditions, power issues, old or incompatible > machines. 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