I made an investment in CTXS in mid 1997. I was pretty impressed with their web site where you could demo their product. It worked and it worked well! I was blown away. So I called investor relations and tried to get some more answers. I got them and forgot some of them now. Maybe someone can refresh my memory.
My feeling at the time was that Citrix was an excellent way to tap into a corporate server, while on the road, through a browser, no matter where in the world you were for only $19.95/month. I was shocked how well it ran Microsoft's database program, Access95 via my old 28.8 analog. It sure appeared to me that I was sitting right next to the server in Fort Lauderdale, not 400 miles away. It was running Access95 as if it were on my local hard drive. Pretty amazing since Access95 is a processing intensive application and here I was running it through a browser window hundreds of miles away.
Well here's my first question, I recall when I talked to investor relations, he mentioned to me that CTXS did multimedia over analog connections. Just a few posts back I believe I read where someone said it could also do voice. Well my question is, did I hear this wrong? How can you possible do any type of quality multimedia or voice over a 28.8 analog connection? The pipe isn't big enough even if you are using a thin client/fat server system.
Second question is, how come Citrix doesn't seem to promote the fact that a corporate WAN can be set up at a very low cost using the Internet as a backbone and a browser to access the corporate server? Seems like it would be easy to allow worldwide employees to just dial in via a local call ISP node, get on the Internet, and connect to their corporate server (using a password of course) with a browser to retrieve or modify data. Seems like even road warriors with a low bandwidth, wireless connections would find great use for Citrix software. Is this being promoted and maybe I missed it? To me this should/could be a large market.
Thanks,
MikeM(From Florida) |
