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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks

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To: Herc who wrote (18611)	6/13/2000 10:19:00 PM
From: ProDeath	Read Replies (1) of 18691

Thin client is the means by which corporations are quietly mitigating the mistake of deploying Microsoft Windows on the desktop. It is particularly appealing in that it permits them to leave Windows in place to run commodity desktop applications like Word and Excel and to move forward deploying strategic applications that are independent of Windows, all this without ever having to acknowledge the mistake of letting Windows in the door in the first place. Thin client is manna from heaven for the clueless "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft" executive/IT cog/computer-operated mouse monkey/datacrat who was unable to resist Redmond's siren song of ease of use combined with the incessant whining of users who want Windows at work because they have it at home, and as far as they know, that's as good as it gets. Thin is less demanding of the desktop environment which translates to lower support costs. Long term, thin will allow firms to spend less on desktop hardware and software, and in many applications eliminate any requirement for Windows completely. In practical terms, Citrix is a marginal player in the universe of thin; web browsers and n-tier applications built with Java are of far greater significance at the present and likely in the future as well. The two "best practice" uses of Citrix I've seen are for dialup access and to allow users lucky enough to be running something other than Windows the ability to access legacy Windows applications. The first niche will shrink as bandwidth alternatives become available and the second as alternative applications ( a current example is Sun's Star Office ) come into wider use. The Citrix Java client can also solve other problems. After installation of Internet Exploder 5 left my NT machine unable to run the native win32 Citrix client I simply substituted the Java Citrix client and am now living happily ever after Citrixing on both NT and Linux. IMO of course. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

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