Sun have released a new version of their Sun Global Desktop product, a tool which lets you run applications on a server and use them locally. This is of course nothing particularly new, the original X Windows System allowed remote viewing of a local application, and through the years there have been a range of different solutions, such as VNC and Microsoft's Terminal Services.

Global Desktop has a few tricks up its sleeve, including the ability to run and support all of these technologies, and even a Java Applet driven web interface which you can try out online (along with X11 and Windows) through this link.