Share this story. A few weeks ago, hosted a webcast concerning. ACTS enables a Mac OS X server to deliver the Mac OS desktop to just about any device with a network connection and a VNC client, allowing multiple users to log in to their own local accounts on the same server, simultaneously. This has been a standard (though often expensive) feature of Windows-based servers for quite some time, but AquaConnect clearly sees themselves helping to position the Mac as a stronger player in the enterprise market. AquaConnect sees ACTS being used mostly to deploy thin clients. Like any thin client setup, the user's device is simply passing input/output to the server, where all of the operations take place. Based on the same RFB protocol used by VNC, ACTS can be accessed using any standard VNC client, including web-based clients that deploy right in a browser window.

Thin Client Virtual Machine

Sony ericsson sa0103 adb interface drivers for mac. Accounts are configured much like local user accounts for the server, allowing admins to deploy an update simply by updating the application in /Applications. A feature I found interesting is how it focuses performance to multiple cores. Many applications fail to make any real use of multiple cores, but ACTS will apparently perform better with 4x2Ghz than it will on 2x3Ghz.

I was also impressed by the refreshing honesty of presentation as the company very directly addressed some of the limitations of the product near the end of the session. It's clear that the product is 1.0, but AquaConnect has big dreams for where it will go in the future. There's no archive of the presentation as far as I can find, but MacEnterprise is hosting a PDF of the.