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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6620)	5/28/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: David Perfette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

The following link makes mention of a company, GraphOn, trying to compete with Citrix. Is anyone familiar with them? Anything to be concerned about? redherring.com Thanks, David

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6620)	5/28/1999 3:00:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9068

I tried it, and it didn't work for me. My guess is that the problem is that the demo (as written) doesn't work through a firewall, although I don't know if that was the problem. This does suggest a problem with this technology, which sounds like the MS-Windows version of X-Windows (although I trust that the programming model isn't so miserable). That is, HTTP/HTML is pretty simple, so it is comparatively easy to make it work in a lot of environments. Further, since it has taken over the world, it already works everywhere. On the other hand, having something that "works like X" for windows has obvious appeal, since there are lots of applications that you can't write using HTML. The big question is whether people care enough about those applications to create a market that competes with HTML. That I don't know, but I doubt very much that anything will displace it (it will probably morph into XML).