Doug,
I'd be very interested to see user profiles for WinFrame, but strongly suspect that a good proportion of deployments include the use of such shrink-wrap applications as Microsoft Office, but agree that a very appropriate target market is the more specialized applications such as hotel and airline reservation systems, custom database query applications, etc.
Think about it, though. The more specialized "terminal" style applications really don't need an NT server or WinFrame. The bandwidth requirement and performance of a base Hydra server using RDP would typically be enough for such deployments (pICAsso will have some initial edge with load balancing, etc. for major implementations).
However, I'm not sure that even Hydra/RDP would be the main competition against Citrix at that point, because for such simple deployments, especially in UNIX-centric or companies wishing to upgrade existing mainframe/character-cell deployments, Java apps and Network Computers will be the more obvious solution, and UNIX server scalability and reliability is still years ahead of NT for major rollouts, and in many cases would prove a more cost-effective approach.
This puts pICAsso right back into the productivity tools deployment market - where a networked PC is at its best...It'll shake down after a year or two.
Ray |
