Peter Ulander, director of marketing for desktop solutions at Sun Microsystems, shed some light on three Linux projects in a recent interview written by Jacqueline Emigh for LinuxPlanet. These are Project Looking Glass, the JavaTM Desktop Environment and Linux thin-client software for the Sun RayTM appliance.

Project Looking Glass will be available for both the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) and for Linux. The solution, the first 3-D desktop environment for Linux, will be shipping in the next 12 to 18 months, according to Ulander. "It's truly awesome," he maintained. "You can rotate things around in realtime on the desktop, flip them around and put notes on the back."

In three to six months from now, Sun expects to release the Java Desktop Environment 2. This solution will include a new edition of Sun's StarOfficeTM productivity suite; a desktop environment based on Gnome; browser, e-mail, calendar, instant messaging (IM) applications and a Linux OS, Ulander noted.

StarOffice 7 will feature "professional grade" TrueType fonts (including fonts that are Microsoft-compatible); export to PDF, Flash, and Web conferencing formats; and advanced writing tools for Asian languages.

Sun plans to ship its first Linux thin-client software for the Sun Ray appliance at some point in time between the other two releases. This will extend the reach of the Sun Ray appliance, making it available to Linux system administrators who want to impose a greater degree of control over access to materials or improve productivity by locking down macros.

"When environments such as call centers migrated off of legacy systems, a lot of productivity was lost. Some users starting spending a lot of time on the Web, checking out their stock portfolios or watching eBay to make sure they didn't lose that little knickknack they wanted," Ulander contended. [...read more...]

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