[THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Pro vider of WAN Op timization Solutions

  • From: "Winslow, Philip" <philip.winslow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:42:41 +0100

I'd agree that the press release is a bit much with the "A Leading Provider of 
WAN Optimization Solutions" language, but the technology is rather interesting. 
 
Orbital Data can accelerate applications delivered by Presentation Server (up 
to 5x faster according to Citrix), and in the future, if Citrix Systems can add 
stronger offerings for Wide Area File Systems (WAFS) and caching into the 
WANScaler appliances, WANScaler could be positioned as an appliance to optimize 
the performance of application streaming technologies.  My guess is that we'll 
also see a "super agent" in the future -- i.e., a combination of the 
OrbitalEdge Agent, Tarpon Agent, Program Neighborhood Agent, and Reflectent 
Agent.  
 
Orbital Data is a small company right now, but Citrix is going to really ramp 
the R&D team.  They've got a ways to go on the development side, but it'll be 
interesting to watch what comes of this acquisition longer-term.
 


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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Steve Greenberg
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 12:50 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Provider of 
WAN Op timization Solutions



 

I don't know, we are getting a lot of interest from customer in this area and 
we have been told that both Cisco and Riverbed products did not deliver during 
testing - maybe Citrix is on to something here....

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Tim Mangan
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 7:09 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Provider of 
WAN Op timization Solutions

 

Or maybe Riverbed, which looks pretty hot right now too.

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Landin, Mark
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 9:36 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Provider of 
WAN Op timization Solutions

 

Packeteer, who just bought Tacit, who looked to me like a REAL "leading 
provider". 

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 7:10 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Provider of 
WAN Op timization Solutions

Wow they have 60 employees to service whopping 75 customers? How does that make 
them a leading provider? WTF? I'd be much more excited if they bought somebody 
like Packeteer. 

JK

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