[THIN] Re: PS4 on Unix experiences
- From: Jeremy Saunders <jeremy.saunders@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:12:48 +0800
Thanks Rick and Steve. Your responses are great...as usual, and advice I
can trust :)
Cheers,
Jeremy.
"Rick Mack"
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Hi Jeremy,
Did a sizeable pilot with one of the telcos using Citrix on Solaris.
Despite having huge bandwidth available X11 is is so chatty that it's
hugely vulnerable to latency. I guess I meant to say slow, but I like X11,
it's a brilliant LAN protocol that blows ICA out of the water when you're
doing text manipulation or vector graphics, but on a WAN it's a different
story.
The performance of the ICA client across their WAN was blindingly fast
compared to X11. One additional benefit was no requirement for an X11
client on Windows client machines, just the standard SOE ICA client.
PS4 enterprise includes Citrix on unix and the unix connections share
licenses with your windows servers. So if you've got PS4 for unix you can
fully integrate the unix published apps into your standard environment (WI
etc) at NO extra licensing cost.
Any organization with X11 unix-based applications that is running Citrix on
Windows as well would be crazy not to use the unix product. The proviso of
course is it only runs on HP/UX, AIX and Solaris (SPARC) but there's
nothing stopping you using a baby Solaris or AIX system as a front end to
linux or other *nix systems.
PS4 on unix is if anything easier to set up than the Windows version. As
always, RTFM helps but you certainly don't have to be a unix guru.
There is of course a linux version of the Citrix product as well but it's
been sitting on the shelf. With the advent of the "free" unix product
bundled with PS4 enterprise, ther's no reason whatsoever (except maybe
Citrix' relationship with Microsoft) that PS4 for linux couldn't be
released.
That'd be really interesting because stuff like Open Office etc just runs
that much better on unix. And we musn't forget that unix has been
multi-user for a long time, with very few of the more common issues
encountered on Windows systems.
regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jeremy Saunders
Sent: Thu 23/03/2006 17:42
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Subject: [THIN] PS4 on Unix experiences
Hi List,
A question of naivety really...
I'm interested to know how well developed Citrix on Unix is, and whether of
not the user experience would be better served by delivering an X Windows
Emulator from PS4 running on Windows 2003 to access the application running
on an AIX server.
Also, can anyone recommend a good X Windows Emulator.
Cheers.
Kind regards,
Jeremy Saunders
Senior Technical Specialist
Integrated Technology Services &
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IBM Australia
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