[THIN] Re: Upgrading Citrix MF 1.8

  • From: "Brian Madden" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:16:29 -0500

In a lot of cases, RDP 5.2 is actually lighter than ICA.

Supposedly that's changing in Hudson, but for now, I would say that more
often than not, RDP wins the bandwidth game.

Brian

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-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Braebaum, Neil
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 6:16 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Upgrading Citrix MF 1.8

Bandwidth?

Admittedly it's a closer thing, these days.

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claudio Rodrigues [mailto:crodrigues@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 24 February 2004 16:58
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Upgrading Citrix MF 1.8
> 
> Exactly as Jim said, why do you need Citrix in this case?
> With 2003 you will have at the protocol level the same things 
> as you do with ICA (sound, high color, serial port mapping, 
> etc). You do NOT load balance. You do NOT publish 
> applications. You do NOT need the web interface. So why Citrix???
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LDeFoor [mailto:citrix@xxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: February 24, 2004 11:45 AM
> To: Thin
> Subject: [THIN] Upgrading Citrix MF 1.8
> 
> 
> Since I don't do this all the time and not in the field 
> learning all the wonderful new things, I just would like a 
> reality check.
> 
> I am going to be upgrading a Citrix MF 1.8 (WIN2K) Server and 
> would like to go to Win03 and the new MetaFrame.  It doesn't 
> do Load Balancing, doesn't do anything on the web, just 
> serves people full desktops from a remote location.  I only 
> have 15 users but would also like to possibly go up to 20 users.
> 
> I think would need to purchase:  XPs upgrade and 15 users 
> licenses and then an additional 5 licenses to make the total 20.
> 
> Now, I can't seem to find on Citrix's web site, anyplace that 
> shows that information for part numbers and such.  Could 
> someone possibly tell me exactly what I might need?  If you 
> are a reseller, you are more than welcome to send me pricing 
> too OFF LIST.
> 
> Thanks...

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