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

To: Scott Overholser who wrote (6624)	5/28/1999 3:45:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9068

"don't be misled into thinking that the firewall issue constitutes a problem with citrix technology. that's what firewalls are for. passing ica is a sysadmin/security issue. the firewall will pass anything you like. i recently tried the demo via my 28.8kbps modem. i used word and excel. it worked flawlessly. the performance was much better than rdp - which i use regularly from the same box over the same modem." Scott, A couple of quick questions from a non-professional. I understand what you are saying about a firewall not passing ICA client the first time you try. So you ring up the sysadmin and he gives you the info or alters something to let ICA for the client pass. But once he does this, does that mean the user/client can use Citrix from then on out? In other words, is there anything else in MetaFrame that prevents it from EASILY working through a firewall once you overcome the initial barrier? Thanks, MikeM(From Florida)

To: Scott Overholser who wrote (6624)	5/28/1999 7:04:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9068

I didn't mean to imply that the Citrix technology couldn't work through a firewall. That idea never even occurred to me. I just meant that the firewall that I have to go through was probably what was causing the demo to fail. My point is that the Citrix technology is different -- if it gets enough momentum that difference probably won't matter, but it's one of the reasons that Unix has as tough a time against Windows as it does. The better versions of Unix are generally better than Windows NT, but they have a comparatively smaller base, and that hurts them from time to time.