[THIN] Re: Softricity
- From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:10:59 -0700
That won't be for quite some time... Published/seamless applications with
advanced load balancing metrics can be done now for Terminal Server with 3rd
party add-ons... And yet, it hasn't affected sales of Presentation Server.
And even when Longhorn is released, Citrix will still be way ahead of the
curve. They are embracing Longhorn, not dreading its release..
Joe
On 3/8/06, Charles Watts <greg.watts@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Microsoft will be adding published application, seamless Windows, and
> rumored to have resource based load balancing. With RDP vs. ICA being just
> about equal it moves Microsoft much closer to closing the gap. Plus cost
> will be a big deal?
>
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Landin, Mark
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:18 PM
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> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Softricity
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> I'm interested in your thoughts about Vista making Citrix less attractive.
> Care to elaborate?
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Charles Watts
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:40 PM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Softricity
>
> We have been evaluating Softricity in our TS environment and basically
> really like the idea of Virtualizing our applications. We have tested about
> a dozen apps and with a little tweaking seem to be working fine. We have
> looked at AIE from Citrix but had a bunch of problems especially coming up
> with packages that would need to be deployed via IM. Plus with Vista we
> might be closer to not using Citrix so we are not leaning towards making
> Citrix our Application Virtualization standard. I just wanted to know before
> we make the final investment with Softricity If anyone else is using it and
> what have been your experiences. Good ? Bad? It sucks? What apps will not
> work? Best practices?
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> Thanks,
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> Greg Watts
>
> GTSI Corp.
>
> 202-231-8055
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>
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