APPOX

To run any application we need to first download the setup file/s and then install it on the system License costs, download and installation time costs are very high. Economically, this limits the number of applications that can be accessed on a system. In an organization, the challenges include installing the same application on multiple computers, accommodating multiple versions of the same application as well as updating application packages on multiple computers. APPOX is a technology that enables the organizations to respond to these management challenges by providing the server the capability to dynamically stream the applications to multiple clients over a network. We know that software developers modularize large applications into several distinct files and we also know that, in a computer, every hardware device is independent of another. Based on these two facts, in this paper, we show how APPOX serves the purpose of letting clients use various applications without installing them on their machines. This form of delivery uses the clients´s local computing resources to run the application and enables users to take applications with them even while they are disconnected from the network This technology lets the server stream only parts of the application that need to be available at any instance for the end user to perform a particular function. Our experimental results show that, on Fedora 8 (Linux Kernel Version 2.6.28), APPOX can be successfully implemented for a Text Editor (MP-5), a Music Player (Rhythmbox), a Video/Music Player (Totem Player), a Graphic image editing/processing tool (GIMP) and a Pdf Reader (Document Viewer).