[dba-Tech] In home streaming

Hi All:

For those of you who, use various platforms, have your own network at home and are still having problems running applications across platforms here might be your solution. (In theory this could be used within an office environment but that of course is not encouraged...especially in beta testing mode and there may be some legal issues(?) but none have been indicated as obvious as this skirts the problems of only having an application installed on one computer.)

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream

The package runs on any platform by feeding a real-time streaming image from a platform where a specific applications is installed and running it locally on your current computer. This may negate the reason for having a dual boot, virtual drives, emulators like Wine or Cygwin or having move to a computer that support the specific program you now need. Just set up a computer that will be the server (holds all your required applications) and setup all the other stations as clients.  

Note: The steam package is still in its beta mode, which suggests the potential of bugs, but it does allows such packages as Quickbooks, Adobe photshop, old and new games, Netflick etc to run without issues. It is fully OS so it will be privately and community supported. The downside is not really a downside but it may not work well on older computers that have very limited resources and performance.

Jim