"...and administrators can not only 'one-touch' distribute applications to the users - via program neighborhood - but administrators can install all of the applications on the metaframe server farm with 'one-touch'."
jkb,
Very cool. Now I'm really starting to understand the differences between TSE and MetaFrame. And I understand why there is such a large percentage of Citrix's MetaFrame deployed on top of Microsoft's TSE.
Again, for CTXS newbies, if a company has hundreds and hundreds of desktops they want to convert to thin client technology, they just can't hook them all up to a single server. It would overwhelm the server.
So what they do is hook up a bunch of servers together in one room. With this, "server farm," setup, they are able to hook hundreds and hundreds of desktops to them. Even thousands it appears from Citrix's work with Federal Express.
Well from what jkb is saying, if a company wants to distribute new applications to ALL the clients throughout the entire company, then all they have to do is to hit a button and the application goes to ALL the servers in the server farm PLUS, via Program Neighborhood, can be pushed to all the desktops. Very convenient and really reduces TCO (total cost of ownership).
MikeM(From Florida)
PS Also for those that don't know, "Load-Balancing," is another CTXS claim to fame. It means that traffic is directed to the proper server in a server farm so optimum network efficiency is gained. Something that MSFT's version of thin client was pretty bad at before, but supposedly does a better job in Win2000 TSE. |
