Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) software provides secure access to both published applications and published desktops running on Microsoft Windows, Unix, mainframe and IBM i systems via a variety of clients ranging from fat PCs to thin clients such as Sun Rays.
The origins of Oracle Secure Global Desktop goes back to 1993, when the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) acquired IXI Limited, a software company in Cambridge, UK, best known for its X.desktop product.
Further 3.x releases followed in subsequent years, adding more integration features in competition with similar software from Citrix Systems.
On April 30, 2013, Oracle released version 5.0 which used HTML5 to provide remote access to applications, especially for mobile devices such as the Apple iPad.
[4] Since that time, there has been a progression of follow-on releases:[5] As of April 2021, the current version is Oracle Secure Global Desktop 5.6.535.
[6] Session Resumability and Mobility is a feature allowing remote access to desktop applications from essentially any Java-enabled browser in the world.
This makes it possible to run applications in one's office, then go to another location such as a customer site or one's home and transfer your existing desktop session to a computer there.
Applications accessed via SGD run in the centralised server room, meaning that all data is backed up and secured via the normal datacenter practices of the organization.
The Firewall Traversal Feature makes it possible to put an application server in an organisation's DMZ with only port 443 (HTTPS) accessible from the outside world.