Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: P2V who wrote (6491)	4/29/1999 10:14:00 PM
From: jkb	Respond to of 9068

<<There is a down side to the "thin client" operation, if you do not have sufficiently fast (broad) pipes to each person's machine, the graphic intensive screens take forever to download to the clients.>> Not true for ICA from Citrix. ICA was developed for speeds as low as 14.4Kbps. Graphics, keyboard updates, and mouse updates pass flawlessly and optimally across anything above that speed.

To: P2V who wrote (6491)	4/29/1999 10:59:00 PM
From: Mkilloran	Respond to of 9068

Marden...thin pipes do have their limits ICA is optimized to assist in speeding the data transfer. There are limits to dialup connections. Citrix and Terminal server are also being used in fast LAN/WAN environments and you can gain many benefits in both environments. This does not dictate a true thin client mode of operation. You can still have your programs of your selection running local on your PC...like MS OFFICE or your word processor office suite of preference...whatever meets our processing needs. Unlike the example you mentioned TANDEM non-stop. Citrix does not require special programming for it's environment...off the shelf PC software can be used in the server and shared with many users. The servers can interface with large databases on other platforms or local to the servers. The only data that is sent between the PC and the servers is screen images and keystrokes,mouse clicks...less data traffic in many cases than shipping raw data to the PC to be processed locally.

To: P2V who wrote (6491)	5/21/1999 9:08:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9068

Re: CTXS Demo on Novell's Website "I occasionally use Fidelity's web site to make trades, and I fuss and fume, as I wait for a graphic intensive picture Peter Lynch to appear on my monitor." Marden, An interesting experiment for you would be to try the CTXS product over on Novell's website at: democity.novell.com The interesting part has nothing to do with the Novell demo....opps. Can't do it now because Novell already took it off their website. That was quick. Well anyway it would have been interesting. What Novell forgot to do, was to remove access to their Internet Explorer web browser. In other words when you ran their demo program, you could click on Start/Programs/Internet Explorer. Then you could browse the web via THEIR connection. What makes this interesting, is the fact you would be browsing at whatever speed their LAN was connected to the web. So if they had a fat pipe to the web, then your computer, no matter what speed you are connected at, could browse the web at their speed. And your viewing would only be limited by screen refreshes on your system. It would have been interesting to see what would happen if you hit the Fidelity web site. Then we could see if this made your viewing of Peter Lynch's image much faster. Kind of a neat use for MetaFrame. Browse the web using someone else's pipe. I tried it while I had access to their Explorer browser and it worked just as fast as my cable modem connection. But that isn't saying much. I wish I had hit their site using a dial-up analog connection. Then I could see if I could still browse at cable modem speeds via a dial-up. Interesting idea. In other words, you can go to Citrix's demo page and run Excel, Powerpoint, Word, etc. And that is an easy to understand use. But I don't believe that using Citrix to actually browse the web(using someones else's fat pipe) has been discussed much? Hope you understand what I'm driving at? It's not easy to word<G>. MikeM(From Florida)