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To: Dinesh who wrote (12859)	12/16/1999 1:33:00 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 54805

Dinesh, I'm enjoying the discussion of Citrix. My concern was about the technology risk. Mine is that I bought long before the enabling technology entered the tornado. It still hasn't. Citrix, although a great product and very timely indeed, is still merely a pipe that fits into holes at either ends. I'm with you until you use the word, "merely." For lack of a better analogy, the pipe is so well lubricated that the data gets to the end user without needing a fatter pipe. I do not see any other vendor tailoring its wares to fit into Citrix pipes. In this respect I see that there is a technology risk associated with Citrix. Your thinking says more about using a pipe as an analogy than it says about the product itself. If I am a water manufacturer, I don't need vendors making a special kind of pipe, hose or any connecting device through which my water can pass. If the device will accomodate a liquid, it will accomodate my water. In the case of computing, if the hardware will accomodate data, it will accomodate Citrix's ICA. Citrix's enabling product can be used on all platforms. It's platform-specific, not applications-specific. Perhaps someone with an indepth knowledge of Citrix can show how other technologies are beginning to hang off the Citrix product tree. As if I haven't already displayed my ineptitude for analogies, I'll risk trying another one. Citrix is the gas pump of distributed computing. It doesn't matter whether the gas is going to a lawn mower engine, a tractor engine, or an automobile engine. Using the pump makes the gas go from the tank to the engine quicker. Citrix gets the display data to the mointor quicker, regardless of the platform the computer is running on. Is Wyse writing to ICA protocol or does it still require Windows CE or equivalent ? Do me a favor and stop asking questions that go beyond my technical understanding. :) I could be very wrong, but my understanding is that Wyse and the other terminal manufacturers don't have to do anything special to accomodate Citrix's benefits. As for CE, I don't know where that comes into play in that Wyse isn't in the handheld business to the best of my knowledge, at least they weren't the last time I looked into the company a couple of years ago. --Mike Buckley