Re: CTXS Demo on Novell's Website
"I occasionally use Fidelity's web site to make trades, and I fuss and fume, as I wait for a graphic intensive picture Peter Lynch to appear on my monitor."
Marden,
An interesting experiment for you would be to try the CTXS product over on Novell's website at: democity.novell.com
The interesting part has nothing to do with the Novell demo....opps. Can't do it now because Novell already took it off their website. That was quick.
Well anyway it would have been interesting. What Novell forgot to do, was to remove access to their Internet Explorer web browser. In other words when you ran their demo program, you could click on Start/Programs/Internet Explorer. Then you could browse the web via THEIR connection.
What makes this interesting, is the fact you would be browsing at whatever speed their LAN was connected to the web. So if they had a fat pipe to the web, then your computer, no matter what speed you are connected at, could browse the web at their speed. And your viewing would only be limited by screen refreshes on your system.
It would have been interesting to see what would happen if you hit the Fidelity web site. Then we could see if this made your viewing of Peter Lynch's image much faster.
Kind of a neat use for MetaFrame. Browse the web using someone else's pipe. I tried it while I had access to their Explorer browser and it worked just as fast as my cable modem connection. But that isn't saying much. I wish I had hit their site using a dial-up analog connection. Then I could see if I could still browse at cable modem speeds via a dial-up. Interesting idea.
In other words, you can go to Citrix's demo page and run Excel, Powerpoint, Word, etc. And that is an easy to understand use. But I don't believe that using Citrix to actually browse the web(using someones else's fat pipe) has been discussed much?
Hope you understand what I'm driving at? It's not easy to word<G>.
MikeM(From Florida) |
