Archive for the ‘Google’ tag
The mysterious of Chromoting
When Google came up with Chrome OS I guess some of the product manager hearts in the big operating system companies stopped bumping for a bit. Google with their own operating system, build on Linux, driven by the open source community and including every applications you need for a business desktop like office apps, collaboration all based on the web. But is web apps really just what you need? What about legacy native applications running on Windows, Mac or Linux? The Register has an exclusive story based on a public email from a Google engineer and some follow up correspondence which talks about a remote feature called Chromoting. What’s behind that? How will Google technically implement that feature? Maybe RDP, VNC, X11, ICA, HDX, NX……..PCoIP? How would a connection to the legacy system look like? Are they going to use a broker to manage the connection? Loads of questions and a huge room for rumour.
Bringing Rapid Spring to the cloud
Maybe you’ve seen the VMware & Google announcement from earlier this week? The new Spring Roo release 1.1.0.M1 does already support Google Web Toolkit and Google App Engine integration. I’ve found a nice article today at SpringSource’s website which describes how to configure the SpringSource Tool Suite to deploy your applications directly to the Google App Engine.
VMware & Google in a nutshell
Today VMware announced to start a series of technology collaborations with Google for delivering solutions that help enterprise software developers to be more efficient at building and deploying their applications. Both companies are collaborating in multiple cases to make cloud applications more productive, portable and flexible. Google is announcing support for Spring Java Applications on the Google App Engine. Using the Eclipse-based SpringSource Toolkit Suite, developers can build and deploy applications in their VMware vSphere environments, at VMware vCloud partners or directly to the Google App Engine. VMware and Google are also working together with Spring Roo, a rapid application development tool and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Finally teh companies are collaborating with their performance tracing technologies. You can find the Google I/O live webcast at Youtube. There is also a blog post from Steve Herrod at his blog.
