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To: David Perfette who wrote (7454)	1/7/2000 3:42:00 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 9068

David - I don't know that much about the Graphon product, per se, or how it compares with Citrix WinFrame and MetaFrame. I have heard that Graphon has a good product. I was only making a general statement about that product area. People don't understand what the products actually do. I've seen news stories that explains what Citrix does by saying "MetaFrame enables users running other operating systems to run Windows applications". That's a true statement, but it doesn't tell the whole story. There's no mention of the fact that the applications actually run on an NT server, and that the users connects to that server and establishes a remote session. I think most people would read that Corel press release and not understand that. People on this forum probably would get it, but many people have never heard of Citrix, GraphOn or any of the others. (How many people here have heard of Tarantella? I just heard about it for the first time on Wednesday.) I also don't think it's a "huge" announcement for Corel, as some people on the Corel forum are thinking, because I don't think that a lot of big companies are going to give all their users Linux workstations and then use them to run Windows applications from a bunch of huge NT servers. Even if they were going to do that, there's a good chance that they'd use some other brand of Linux, and run MetaFrame on the back end. - Allen