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

To: Heeren Pathak who wrote (8103)	5/19/2000 3:49:00 AM
From: Dinesh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

Hi Heeren One man's problems is sometimes another man's opportunity. IMHO, writing context-free apps only tends to increase the load on the servers since the context needs to be reestablished every time browser posts a message. That can be very resource intensive - proabably more intensive than the model that maintains context all the way. Instead of an ultra-5 you may be staring at an e450. That's another zero to the price tag. Citrix likes to maintain context. Context-free app will probably mean bye bye Citrix. But I am not worried <g> Re cache: Good distributed cache in a transactional environment is a terribly hard thing to accomplish. I am not aware of any good packaged software for this (but I am interested in learning about them). Re scalability: Are we confusing thoughput with scalability here ? Does Citrix add a bottleneck to a system ? Everything I have read about it claims that it is extremely lightweight. Perhaps the Citrix VARs on this thread can comment on it. Another issue with web based apps is about interactivity. Web model is essentially a pull model. Click a button and you get a new page. A desktop app otoh can create a new page on basis of a variety of other inputs. Auto-refreshing webpage is puts an upper bound on the update frequency. Java applets need a server side backend to notify it of new events (and usually need a connection to do so) so that's not any better. And I can't even recall what led to this conversation. Yes, what's better - a car or a truck ? (dont' get me wrong. I very much enjoy reading your very intelligent and well informed posts.) Regards Dinesh