Sphere 3D Corp. (ANY)

[blueblizzy]

When a vulnerability is discovered after support ends, they don't get patched up in the traditional sense of issuing a patch/hotfix. This is because Windows XP is still Microsoft IP and to patch security holes, you need access to the source code.

Correct me if I'm wrong but with an app virtualization solution such as Glassware, the app is somehow de-coupled from the OS. Because of this, the vulnerabilities that exist on the OS tier are removed. How it does this, I don't know and probably never will in any great detail: referring to Morelli's comment on "sorry, can't tell you any more than that, from this point on it is proprietary IP".

Glassware's competitive advantage is that Glassware doesn't require alot of hardware to run. Ie. does not have a hypervisor.

Competitors:

VMWare ThinApp
http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/

Citrix XenApp
http://www.citrix.com/products/xenapp/overview.html


One other question that I have had is does Sphere 3D offer a solution which allows users to work on the app in local or offline mode? Do you have to be always connected to the cloud? What happens if there is a poor connection to the cloud?