OI32 and Mac OS? (OpenInsight 32-Bit) [Revelation On-Line Wiki]

OpenInsight 32-Bit, Sandra D'Angelo, Donald Bakke

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At 17 NOV 2003 11:58:40AM Sandra D'Angelo wrote:

I have a client that has several MacIntosh PC's and wants to know if he can run an OI32 app on the MacIntosh PC's. I know the simple answer is no. But I was wondering if the VPN client offered with Mac OS X Panther would run the product. The built-in VPN client supports the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol over Internet Protocol Security (L2TP/IPSec) and Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), and is compatible with Cisco and Microsoft VPN servers. Does anybody know if this will work with OI32? Would JOI work?

Thanks, Sandra

At 17 NOV 2003 11:58AM Donald Bakke wrote:

Sandra,

I have a client that has several MacIntosh PC's and wants to know if he can run an OI32 app on the MacIntosh PC's. I know the simple answer is no.

Not necessarily. Depends on how concerned you are in how you get there. We have succesfully run AREV and OI using VirtualPC and other OS or Chipset emulators on the MAC. Locking even worked. Performance was similar to running OI through a remote control (e.g. PCAnywhere) program.

But I was wondering if the VPN client offered with Mac OS X Panther would run the product.

The real question is: would anybody run OI through VPN even on a PC? Perhaps some do but we don't recommend it. Assuming a default configuration of your OI application, the whole system would have to be pushed through the VPN pipe. This is like running on a WAN. My personal opinion is that performance would be too slow to be useful.

Does anybody know if this will work with OI32?

Another option is to put OI on a Citrix/Terminal Server and use their connection client to run the system ala remote control. They have clients for the Mac which work very well.

This is highly speculative on my part, but OI 7.0 is supposed to be able to run natively on Linux. Mac OS 10.x is supposed to have a backbone of Unix. We don't think it would take much to cross the divide and have OI designed to run natively on the Mac.

Would JOI work?

Absolutely! If your UI needs to be rich then JOI is the best way to go. If the UI isn't so demanding then you can simply use the OECGI and create HTML interfaces.

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At 17 NOV 2003 11:58AM Sandra D'Angelo wrote:

Thanks for the quick response! - Sandra

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