[THIN] Re: .NET and Citrix

  • From: "Gunn, Jeff" <Jeff.Gunn@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:13:48 -0500

There's this:

http://www.rdesktop.org/

        -Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Minero Hector B DLVA [mailto:MineroHB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 8:27 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: .NET and Citrix
> 
> 
> 
> Oh, wait a minute.  I need an RDP client for Unix.  Any chance of that
> happening?
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Minero Hector B DLVA [mailto:MineroHB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 8:22 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: .NET and Citrix
> 
> 
> 
> I looks like I won't be needing MetaFrame anymore.
> 
> _________________________________
> Hector Minero
> NSWCDD Code K55
> Ph: (540)653-8859
> Fax:(540)653-8575
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Snyder [mailto:steven_snyder@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 6:06 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: .NET and Citrix
> 
> 
> 
> Terminal Services in Windows Server 2003 (formerly
> called .NET server, hence the source of some confusion
> with the .NET web-based apps framework), will provide
> a lot of functionality currently only provided by ICA
> - client drive mapping, client serial port mapping,
> sound mapping, 24-bit color, higher resolutions, etc.
> (just review all of the currently useless options in
> the WinXP RDP client), as well as supporting some
> non-Windows clients.
> 
> In addition, you can load-balance terminals servers. A
> really cool feature is if a session gets disconnected,
> it can reconnect to the same session but on a
> different server (courtesy of Session Directory).
> 
> It appears, however, that it will not have any
> equivalents to all of the neat Enterprise Management
> tools that you get with XPe.
> 
> So for a company not needing enterprise management
> tools, ICA won't offer much advantage over RDP - which
> is why Citrix has been lately putting so much emphasis
> on their other value-adding products like CSG and NFue
> Elite.
> 
> Here's a link to Server 2003 Terminal Services
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/termin
alservices/def
ault.mspx

HTH

> I have people here beginning to discuss .NET quite
> heavily and how we won't
> need Citrix, once we go to .NET web based apps.,
> etc.
> 
> I have heard people talk about how Citrix will
> compliment those apps.  Any
> input?

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