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<img src="http://parcom.pro-networks.org/PROneT-News/Linux/News/8.jpg" align="right" alt="At Intel's Request, Glide Online Suite To Get Linux Client, Back End">At Intel's Request, Glide Online Suite To Get Linux Client, Back End
By Jacqueline Emigh
October 16, 2006 03:07:35 PM

Under urging from Intel Corp., TransMedia's Glide online applications suite--an emerging competitor to Microsoft Office--will gain a Linux desktop client in January of next year plus a Linux version of its back-end infrastructure during the March 2007 timeframe.

Earlier this month, TransMedia rolled out Glide 2.0, a major update to the company's online application environment for multiplatform PCs and mobile devices. In a meeting during last week's Digital Life Expo, TransMedia CEO Donald Leka told LinuxPlanet that TransMedia now plans to release a Linux client in January. The upcoming client will offer similar functionality to an existing client for Apple's OS X.

Glide is a browser-enabled environment, already accessible from Windows, Mac and Linux desktops, as well as from some mobile devices. But Mac users who want to work offline--or synchronize their desktops with the online environment-- need to use the Mac client software, Leka said. Meanwhile, in about March of next year, TransMedia will finish up development of "a complete Linux version of the (Glide) back end," according to the CEO.

"Intel has asked us to pursue this course," Leka said, sitting down with LinuxPlanet a TransMedia press event in Manhattan on Thursday. "Intel is very happy that we're doing it." The Linux version of the back end will include "all Web applications, services and transcoding/batch processing," Leka elaborated, during follow-up questioning later.

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