[THIN] Re: 5 user XP starter kit
- From: Mike Hiester <mmhiester@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:45:46 -0800 (PST)
Wow, you must be really important and influential to
have a whole company not like you. LOL
It's interesting that a request for the 5 user starter
to load test software has turned into a rant against
the same software company.
Quote:
Yeah, since I left HP, I don't have any kind of
"official" relationship with
Citrix.
The problem is that Citrix doesn't like what I write.
They think my website
is full of lies and half-truths about Bear Paw and
about Microsoft's
relationship with New Moon and Jetro, etc, etc. In
fact, one of Citrix's VPs
told me last year that my site was "damaging the
industry." He said that
customers were upset when I wrote things like "will
Bear Paw be a Citrix
killer?" A lot of my friends who are SEs at Citrix
called me and asked me to
change it, but do I really want to change articles
because the company I'm
writing about doesn't like them? If no one challenges
anything Citrix says,
are we really better?
In my opinion, I think these articles start a good
dialog and make people
think instead of everyone always drinking the vendors'
Kool-Aid.
Citrix feels that I sensationalize articles just to
get readers. I feel
differently. But, it's a free country and Citrix can
do what they want, so
that's fine with me.
I think it would be great if Citrix gave me NFR
licenses, but if they would
rather have my $6,000 for a 20-user XPe starter kit
just so I can write
about it, then so be it.
I love Citrix. I make my living from Citrix. ..Just
calling a foul doesn't
mean you hate the game.
Brian
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