Tarantella acts as a middleman between application servers and clients, requiring no installations on either. It talks directly to Windows 2000 or Windows Terminal Server in their native Remote Desktop Protocol. Running Unix applications via MetaFrame for Unix is less complicated than running them through an X server or terminal emulation can be. Publishing these applications also took little time but had to be done from Unix command-line utilities. However, we did not find any facility for pushing connection icons from a central location, as can be done with the Windows version of MetaFrame.
Administrators can place connection icons on a centrally accessed Web page instead.
There are a few other limitations in this first version. In addition, a desktop session cannot be resized because CDE does not support resizing. Stand-alone application windows can usually be resized, however. Printing from Unix applications can be directed either to printers defined on the Unix host or to the local printer. MetaFrame for Unix automatically sets up all defined Windows printers, making them available for printing documents either from the command line or from applications.