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

To: Innuit who wrote (5470)	4/19/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: RELLEK	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

IBD reported that there have been some sizable purchases of Citrix by mutual funds recently. 15 funds have bought 172 million bucks worth of stock.

To: Innuit who wrote (5470)	4/20/1998 8:33:00 AM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

Implications, anyone? ___Terminal Server Untested With BackOffice___ Beta testers of Windows Terminal Server say Microsoft appears to be on schedule to deliver the final version by June. But the company plans to recommend initially that the software run on a dedicated computer. Terminal Server, which lets multiple end users access desktop applications running on Windows NT 4.0 Server, will replace NT's kernel with a multiuser kernel. Currently, NT gives higher priority to tasks required by server functions such as those performed by Microsoft's BackOffice applications, and lower priority to requests from client systems. But the multiuser kernel will cause NT to do the opposite. Microsoft has not tested how BackOffice applications such as SQL Server and Exchange will run with Terminal Server, and doesn't suggest customers try it. "We had to decide whether we wanted to build a version of [Terminal Server] that was a good [BackOffice] applications server or ship it this summer," says Mike Nash, director of marketing for NT Server. "Users said they wanted it sooner rather than later." In fact, users aren't complaining. Fastenal Co., a $400 million industrial supply firm in Winona, Minn., plans to use Terminal Server at more than 700 branches to replace a terminal-based, point-of-sale system running on Unix. The company is running Sybase's SQL Anywhere, a direct competitor to SQL Server, on the same machine as Terminal Server without any problems, says Tim Albrecht, IS manager at Fastenal. "Beta two seems to address the problems we had [with beta one], speed being a big one, and we're anxiously awaiting the final code." -- Stuart J. Johnston