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

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6647)	6/4/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

My understanding (and I've heard LE talk about this twice and he is very specific, so I can't see how I got it wrong) is that you have the correct picture of what 8i is about. One thing that is worth keeping in mind about "rewriting in Java" vs. using a Citrix technology, is that very few applications scale really well (that is, to thousands of simultaneous users) unless they have been written specifically to do so. So most applications don't fit this model anyway. (Of course, most applications don't need to.) Perhaps the Citrix view is that eventually people will write Windows applications for filing corporate expense reports, ordering books from Amazon, etc., but I kind of doubt it. There is clearly some overlap in the markets here, but I think that mostly we are talking about apples and oranges. Another part of the Oracle sales pitch is that the database, which is going to be the repository/backend for the server application anyway, can also now be used as the platform for the application. The idea is that the same technology that makes it possible for the Oracle RDBMS to support 50K simultaneous users on a big computer can make it possible for your web site to service lots of clients at once. If you have ever written a server platform/application you know that it is not all that easy to get it right, and anything that helps is a win. The Citrix sales pitch seems equally compelling, but in an entirely different way. If you need to expose some centrally managed Windows apps across a network, all you do it install this small piece of software on each client. That's so easy as to be painless, but I really don't see how that helps someone like Amazon...