What is that? ________________________________ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 1:15 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Pro vider of WAN Op timization Solutions There is still room for improvement. For one, differential compression. Joe ________________________________ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Landin, Mark Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 10:42 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Pro vider of WAN Op timization Solutions My understanding is that the ICA protocol itself is already pretty "optimal" so I'm not sure what Orbital brings to the table that Riverbed and Tacit don't. Tacit in particular seems to cover ALL the bases: disk-cache WAFS, WAN optimization for CIFS, NFS, HTTP, Sharepoint, SQL, and others, plus Windows domain functions, including authentication, DHCP, print serving, etc, all in one appliance. Is there some "special" ICA optimization that Orbital can do that others can't? ________________________________ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Winslow, Philip Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 11:43 AM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: FYI: Citrix To Acquire Orbital Data, A Leading Pro vider of WAN Op timization Solutions 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. ________________________________ 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.... Steve Greenberg Thin Client Computing 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453 Scottsdale, AZ 85262 (602) 432-8649 www.thinclient.net steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ________________________________ 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. ________________________________ 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". ________________________________ 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 "Winslow, Philip" <philip.winslow wrote: FYI --------------------------------------- Philip A. 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