Sphere 3D Corp. (ANY)

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Progressive, this is also interesting in relation to Chromebooks

there is currently another company that also offers a solution for delivering Windows Apps and Desktops to Chromebooks called ERICOM - and has been active in the education space.

http://www.ericom.com/education-chromebookrdpclient.asp

worth checking the homepage as well

http://www.ericom.com

In fact, Dan Shappir from Ericom will be giving a talk on Chromebooks in enterprise at Briforum in Boston. (Sphere will be there also)

http://briforum.com/US/sessions.html#chromebook

We know Ericom is watching because DS also made these comments after PB's BrianMadden podcast

http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/bglive/archive/2014/06/10/brianmadden-com-podcast-with-sphere3d-at-9-30pst-today-what-do-they-do-join-us-live.aspx#comments

Dan Shappir wrote re: BrianMadden.com Podcast #57 (Special Edition): Sphere3D talks about their microvisor-like app virtualization solution.
on Wed, Jun 11 2014 8:20 AM

I want to set the record straight: not only does Safari support canvas on all platforms, but it was, in fact, the first browser to support canvas. Canvas was introduced by Apple itself back in 2004 as one of the means for eliminating browser reliance on Flash.

Canvas support is pretty much universal in modern browsers. As you can see from the table here caniuse.com the only reason for working "canvas free" is to provide out-of-the-box support for clients using IE6-IE8.

There is a price to pay for not using canvas however: performance will be noticeably degraded. This is why all HTML5 remote access solutions that I'm familiar with use canvas.

Dan

In fact, part of Ericom's technology uses HTML5 <canvas>.

Since Chesterfield did very compressive research into their options, I wonder if Ericom was also given consideration once they made the decision to go with Chromebooks?

Like you say, this was a very important validation