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Technology Stocks : Citrix Systems (CTXS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6997)	9/17/1999 11:09:00 PM
From: dreydoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

Mike: You've got quite a memory. I forgot all about that "experiment." We were using the Novell site because they were apparently using Win/Metaframe to provide simulated access to their app's. You discovered that and posed the hypothesis about getting high speed access through a T-1 connection on a Win/Metaframe server across a slower connection to the demo server. You weren't able to replicate your experiment because NOVL pulled the explicit Explorer 5.0 program from the demo site, but I found it buried in the navigation bar of their Visio product demo (I think). I could then launch an independent browser and go surf on NOVL's T-1 or whatever they had. Fun but inconclusive. Makes as much sense for Novell to demo as anyone else. Also, recall that CTXS first products were designed for reaching apps via ICA on Novell servers from an OS/2 server(WinView). Throw a Solaris or Linux server in there for good measure (using the forthcoming Charlotte) and you can start to distribute any kind of app into a common client interface, on a PC, Palm, WinCE, Nokia Phone, Pokemon, whatever. There would seem to be a good fit for the directory services model of NDS and any-client to any-sever model of CTXS. Take the Charlotte model and consider this Program Neighborhood interface to lot's of different servers, Win2000, Linux, Solaris, etc. and users are liberated from MS' punitive licenses in non Win32 app's, while using the same thin client model and interface. I like that. Kind of a Boston Tea Party cum 1999. The Street.com articles posted recently summed that up pretty well I thought. Having re-read that post (thanks jkb), perhaps the Vertigo product is a tie-in to the Viewsoft referred to earlier for SAP MySAP.com stuff. In fact that's got to be it, sans ICA. Vertigo is for the Palm or WinCE devices and will use something other than ICA. Message 11249999 >>And what about Novell? Eric Schmidt's keynote was well received, but that's scarcely surprising as his blatant sales pitch for NDS was particularly appropriate for a Citrix audience. As Schmidt pointed out, if you use NDS you can set up new users on the network easily, you can log on from anywhere, using different devices, and still get the same desktop - basically, this is an extraordinarily good fit with the agnostic, 'anywhere to anywhere' computing model Citrix is currently pushing. So a forthcoming alliance? Iacobucci, as always, wasn't telling - but you read it here first. ®<< All of this reminds me of conversations we've had around here about how network computing should enable us to get to our desktop, or portal, as in my.identity.com from anywhere via anything. If the carriers get into this uniform protocol movement ala instant messaging, you could use your Qualcomm PDQ device, or theoretically walk up to an ATM connected to the network and logon to your desktop envirnment at work, or your personal my.whatever.com and do your thing. Sounds like a world that CTXS may be working to create. Cheers, dd