
Tangerine
Rational Data’s offers a free open source operating system designed to power PC's, laptops and other devices. Tangerine is a machine based operating system and is provided to individuals as a way to reduce cost on proprietary operating systems. It is designed to integrate with Raitonal Data's i Platform.
The diagram below illustrates the relationship between Tangerine, the machine based operating system as well as other machine based operating sytems and the i Platform the web based opertating system. Tangerine interfaces between the actual machine (i.e., motherboard, processor, etc. and applications that run on top of it like a browser. The i Platform interfaces between the browser and the network and functionality there.
