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

To: mauser96 who wrote (6156)	2/8/1999 7:59:00 AM
From: gdichaz	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9068

Appreciate all the answers re wireless use of Citrix. Delighted that is possible. Since it is obvious that I am a learner not a tech wiz re the technologies involved, would appreciate some info on the relationship of Java to Citrix. As I understand from an investor's standpoint only, Citrix permits access to a windows portfolio whereever situated using many different access paths including Java. Is that correct? The way that is done is through the ICA (or successor) path rather than the NT path, no? As is obvious, these relationships are a bit of a puzzlement. As a longtime Qualcomm investor, suggest that those of you interested in wireless data transmission opportunities for CTXS take a look at the active SI Qualcomm thread and the even more relevant but very new thread for the Microsoft/Qualcomm joint venture here - Wirelessknowledge.. All these interrelationships are fascinating and at their earliest stages. Yet the future importance of rapid wireless data transmission from handheld appliances (expecially phones), which could be a major opportunity for Citrix, is clear IMO. Chaz

To: mauser96 who wrote (6156)	2/8/1999 10:15:00 AM
From: Mkilloran	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

Lucius...the application that we have on Citrix supports several thousand users on a large pool of Servers. About 600 users are laptops users (sales related positions). When they are in the office they connect across the WAN on a frame relay network speeds any where from 56kb to T1 depending on location and population of employees in that building. When on the road they can dial in (regular phone lines) using 56kb modems. We are just starting with Cell phone connections with our current 56kb modems ...the cell phone is analog phone not digital. All we did was order a connector cable to interface between the cell phone and the laptop modem...the cell phone network only supports up to 14.4 speeds. For digital cell phones you have to interface with a digital service and have approiate connections at the server site to support digital connections. Citrix allows you to set the PC to use compression when dialing in. This helps and is adequate for our application. Total cost was $40 for the cable...we took the low budget option. And at this time is only need by a few of the 600 users. I believe we could get faster speeds if they were needed thru digital cell phones...but it would be more expensive.