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To: Redman who wrote (7913)	4/29/2000 4:13:00 PM
From: SunSpot	Respond to of 9068

The adoption rate is extremely dependant on which type of application you are talking about. Small database applications, like a phone book, are typically already converted. Administrative tools like SAP etc. have typically been converted from text-mode software (DOS like) to Windows, but there is no technology other than Citrix like stuff that can internet enable this kind of applications yet. Java is still not good enough for applications of this size, and Citrix-based solutions have much better cost/benefit with these kinds of apps. Office applications like Microsoft Office must run locally or via Citrix. If you want to web-enable these kinds of applications without Terminal Server or Citrix, then you will lose the 100% file format compatibility. And then you must remember, that most applications are in fact "solutions", which means software built specifically for a purpose or a customer, based on other applications, like MS Office, Lotus Notes etc. They cannot be web-enabled unless the underlying software is web-enabled. Since MS Office will not be web-enabled (without TS, Citrix) for a very long time, all solutions built on top of these won't either. The more different devices we get (Pocket PC, Windows CE, Playstation II, Linux boxes etc.), the more Citrix software will help deploying all the Windows-based software. Since set-top boxes, pocket PCs, Linux boxes, Playstation seems to be the future, Citrix and Terminal Server also seem to be the future. The company I own until last year mainly did Windows programming. We have now entered the Linux market with success, and a key to the success of Linux deployment is thin client software like Terminal Server and Citrix, running on Linux. And it works.