Remote-access vendors are boosting the market with a raft of new products that will let the network channel break away from the traditional solutions. For VARs, that means plenty of opportunities to solicit new accounts and drum up additional sales among existing clients. Novell Inc. NetWare.
Vendors are also at work on cross-platform solutions.
The newest version of RapidRemote software from Quarterdeck Corp. in Marina Del Rey, Calif., supports not only Microsoft Windows NT but also the Windows 3.1 versions. Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh environments remotely. To dodge the bandwidth squeeze, remote-access technology has relied on using laptop or notebook computers to operate desktop PCs from afar. The next frontier for many organizations, and the resellers who support them, is implementing remote nodes. Speeding up the connections will be file-712acd03a.htmlacceleration software tha t resides on the portable.