So is this basically software run on a remote machine, but presented visually and interactively VNC-style in my browser? Looks a lot smoother than VNC, of course, just trying to get a feel for what the product is.
Run any softw....
Brian Madden "It's one fo the m...."I've toyed with the idea of setting up mainframes-as-a-service. I would probably just run the various Linux distributions running inside Hercules and abstract it away as cleanly as possible. You'd never get the performance or capacity, but you'd get a cheap, easy emulation for coding and small-scale testing. It's been a while since I had time for a side-project but I'd still love to work on this.
I know, because I am the system programmer who set this up internally at my company.
[0]: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/ratideveandtesten...
I wonder if you could run X11 in a browser. You'd have to get around the fact that it couldn't accept client connections, but otherwise, it seems plausible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zJ8TNcWTyo
It will basically do the same thing as Mainframe2 except it'll be open source and you'll be able to run it (the server) wherever you like. I've been working on the X11 support quite a lot over the past few weeks... Hopefully the public beta will be ready soon.
Lots of good questions -- you can find a good info on what we do here: http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2013/12...
1. We'll support all HTML5 compliant browsers on all OSs at launch. This public demo is designed as a technology preview and we're primarily focused on user experience, not necessarily feature completeness. If you still want to try the demo, we recommend Chrome -- it's is lightweight and free.
2. It's running on AWS G2 instance with NVIDIA GRID indeed.
3. Any Windows (and soon Linux) app can be onboarded to the system in about 10 minutes, then scaled/delivered to thousands of users.
4. There are also native terminals for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
5. Session time is limited to a couple of minutes (to handle the load) but you can jump back in if you want to.
For more details and early access, sign up for our beta (there's a form on our home page).
Cheers, Nikola
Four months? I am at a loss for words.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YJwekaJ6Ys
I wonder where personal computing will go. Either this where the personal pc is more or less a dumb terminal, or something like ChromeOS with a Client/Server hybrid approach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zJ8TNcWTyo
That's Gate One's forthcoming X11 feature. Still haven't got audio working yet...
Nikola (founder at Mainframe2)
Also I got a "browser not supported" error when I played the video. I am running Ubuntu with Firefox. Honestly not a good sign...
I'm guessing it's because the hiring company can point a contractor at a pre-configured machine with a known stack, data, etc. (kind of like using the company laptop).
with mainframe2 and other companies in the space (such as, khm, Amazon with their AppStream) software vendors get to deliver big old windows applications such as Photoshop, AutoCAD etc to a number of users who either don't have big windows workstations to run them, don't want to bother downloading and installing gigabytes of software, or don't want to pay many $$$ for a perpetual license when they only need to use the software few hours a month. Now they can all transition to SaaS ..
there was another company in the space that got my attention called OTOY. They made partnerships with Mozilla and AutoDesk to deliver AutoDesk tools in the browser, their demos also look pretty cool though I'm not sure what's their commercial offer gonna be, likely not the full stack like mainframe2 ..
EDIT: NM, looks like it's just something like VNC.
Your browser is not supported.
Mainframe2 Beta supports the latest Chrome (Windows/Mac) or Safari (Mac).
Too bad, if it ran on more device types, especially mobile, this would be a killer.