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

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (6441)	4/21/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: jkb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

Mike thanks for your response. This is what I thought it was. I will check out the web site that you mention - however - I would be interested in your opinions regarding: -Clients purchasing this 'leased' hardware and Citrix software from ASP's - aren't the clients concerned about security from the ASP potentially stealing/hacking the data? What about other ASP clients sharing the same Citrix server? Isn't that a security risk? Seems a lot risky to me. -I'm also interested about the comments from Citrix saying that integrators have been asking for Citrix to pursue this avenue further on their behalf. Seems to me that ASP's are competition for integrator installs of Citrix servers and applications on Citrix servers - specifically those installs where clients buy the hardware/Citrix software and maintain the environment at their site(s). -Are these ASP's making their Citrix servers available over the public Internet or over private networks such as AT&T/WorldCom's/etc.? -What role is Citrix specifically playing in this ASP market? Will they become an ASP themselves or help drive sales and marketing for ASP partners?

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (6441)	4/21/1999 11:59:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Respond to of 9068

Re: ASP Details Mike, Thanks for your response. Now why in the world can't CTXS word it exactly like you did? I think someone should hack into their web site and cut&paste your message. <VBG> BTW I read a scathing article today (I'll try to do a summary later) about how poorly MSFT is doing with the marketing and support of Terminal Server Edition. IMHO, it may be a two-fold problem. CTXS should do a better job of marketing their products also. CTXS needs to talk to customers and shareholders as regular people. CTXS has this attitude everyone is an IT professional. That's a BIG mistake when ultimate spending decisions on their products and investors are non-IT people. No matter how you feel about Gates and Ellison, at least when they speak, you understand them. Have you ever called CTXS's IR department and asked some simple questions? I have and the more they talked, the more confused I got. After listening to their CC, that attitude appears to be coming from the top down. MikeM(From Florida)