Engineeering / Project Managers

Let me ask: If you're paying your engineers six-figure salaries and thousands of dollars (per seat) for design tools, why would you not want to give them the best PC X server to access their design and other Unix/Linux-based tools? Project and department managers are under ever increasing pressure to shorten design cycles.  PC X servers have been the solution of choice for more than 20 years.

At StarNet, we understand that today, simply emulating X on Windows is not good enough any longer. There are too many alternative choices and solutions to overcome today's complex IT infrastructure as well as end-user demand for advanced features. To compete effectively, we have to deliver compelling performance and productivity advantages that competitors, including freeware don't offer.  Advantages that make end users so much more productive, the software pays for itself month after month. And as a manager you demand strong vendor support so bugs are fixed immediately and needed enhancements implemented quickly.

X-Win32 meets the challenges of today's demanding end users:

• Flexibility/Mobility: Engineers need to access their design tools from a variety of places; office, lab, clean room, conference room, manager's office, even from home or a customer's site. To that end StarNet has made a version of X-Win32 available that installs and runs from a USB key. Engineers can simply take the key containing both the X server and all their pre-configured session to any PC and their tools.
• Persistency:  You can't spend valuable time designing a new product

only to see hours or days worth of work wiped out in an instant when the PC loses its connection to the host. Screen scrapers like VNC have come along to protect against that. But they are slow, bring down network performance and offer almost no added-value features such as  the ability to copy and pasting of data and graphics from X to Windows. Today, X-Win32 is the only PC X server that offers the option of running LIVE sessions that you can suspend/resume or reconnect to after a crash.

LIVE sessions are especially valuable when connecting over a VPN or direct Internet connections both of which are known to be very unstable.

LIVE sessions make it feasible to enjoy persistency without compromise on performance or features:

• Performance: This still ranks #1 in what end users want out of their PC X server. X-Win32 sports a number of unique features that makes its performance stand out. Our unique "Advanced Window Caching" technology, for example, gives remote applications the appearance of running locally by providing instant responses to a number of actions, such as switching between heavy graphics X windows. And our OpenGL support, which is fully integrated and free, outperforms even the Exceed 3D OpenGL engine that comes at the $295 premium.
• Productivity: X-Win32 includes a long list of features that make users more productive:  ust look at some of the major ones:
• Multiple desktops --  Most engineers have tools on multiple remote hosts. With X-Win32 users are no longer restricted to a single remote desktop. In seconds you can bring up AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Linux desktops and just Alt-Tab between them ... and Windows.
• Copy & Paste -- Any PC X server can copy text from X to Windows. But they fall short when it comes to graphics. X-Win32 has a nice screen capture tool that lets you copy and paste graphic from your Unix tools into PowerPoint or other Windows apps.
• Integrated SSH --  Firewall don't pose much of an obstacles when connecting with X-Win32's integrated SSH connection module. And with our IPsmarts feature, connecting to you host from behind a DSL or Cable NAT is made very simple.
• Configuration -- X-Win32 has always been recognized for its simplicity. Even the most Windows-centric user can easily get to a Unix/Linux desktop and work productively with the applications on the remote machines. A session wizard makes it simple for the more advanced users to set up Single Window and Multiple Window Mode session. And power users have a broad range of tools available to get quickly configure the way to like to interface with their remote hosts.
• Support -- Customers tell us we should be marketing the way we do business in terms of customer support. Tech support is always free and same-day based. Even our Google-based online knowledge database can provide instant solutions for more than 100 obstacles users can encounter. And our state-of-the-art engineers system can fix a problem and release a new build to the entire customer base instantly.
• Cost -- You want to provide your engineers with the best tools possible, but you still have to stay within budget. Where as some PC X server can cost up to $1,000 per seat, X-Win32 is listed at just $225 and usually below $200 in any kind of volume. With the gains in productivity, X-Win32 delivers value month after month.

You owe it to yourself and your staff to give X-Win32 a try and experience what has made hundreds of thousands of engineers around the world far more productive today then they have ever been using other PC X servers.