[THIN] Re: Remote access and developers
- From: "Michael Pardee" <pardeemp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:36:11 -0400
Thanks Joe. I believe we may have Photoshop running now that you mention
it. For visual studio, how well does it work with multiple developers?
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dreamweaver and Photoshop can be made to work in Citrix, but installing
> them is the biggest pain in the butt.
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> Visual Studio works as well.
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> The question with these apps is they use a lot of CPU and memory.
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> Joe
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Michael Pardee
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:16 AM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Remote access and developers
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> Apologies if this is a duplicate. I had an issue with my email account
> earlier.
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> How is everyone handling remote access for their developers? Citrix has
> served us really well for the past 10 years and we will add our 10,000th
> concurrent user this year, but we have never been able to get the developers
> to play nicely in the Citrix world. They all want (need?) their own
> desktops and have always been able to justify elevated permissions. I would
> love to get them in Citrix, but for some apps that may be forcing a square
> peg in a round hole. We are getting ready to do some testing with a couple
> VDI solutions, but it is way too early to tell if that will work for them
> and I don't think we can bring up an environment fast enough to support
> hundreds of remote developers.
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> There is always the tried and true vpn solution, but since implementing
> wi/csg years ago we have been eliminating vpn for client use and normally
> just use it for network to network connectivity these days.
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> Here is a subset of some of the applications we have yet to host via Citrix
> today, but some of this may be because we never tried.
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> Dreamweaver
> Photoshop
> SeeBeyond
> Visual Studio .Net
> Toad
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> Thanks in advance everyone.
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> Michael Pardee
> http://blindsquirrel.org
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