First Citrix staff meeting held at Ed Iacobucci’s house during either August or September 1990. From the left, Mike Stone, VP Marketing, Lynn Bishop, VP Sales, Ed Iacobucci CTO, Glenn Hamblin, VP Engineering, Roger Roberts, CEO.
The picture was taken by Al Larson, VP Finance.
Thanks go to Roger Roberts and Ed Iacobucci for providing this picture.
Every software company uses code names for their products before they are released. It is a very long tradition in the technology field. For many years, I have been meaning to compile a list of the Citrix server code names but the main problem was that it was easy to forget the names versus the numbers. Recently I found an old web page that summarizes the releases and code names.
| Real name | Code name | Date |
|---|---|---|
| XenApp 6.5 | Iron Cove | August 2011 |
| XenApp 6.0 | Parra | April 2010 |
| XenApp 5.0 | Delaware | August 2008 |
| Presentation Server 4.5 | Ohio | February 2007 |
| Presentation Server 4.0 | Colorado | April 2005 |
| Presentation Server 3.0 | Hudson | February 2004 |
| MetaFrame XP Feature Release 3 | Amazon | February 2003 |
| MetaFrame XP Feature Release 2 | Ganges | May 2002 |
| MetaFrame XP Feature Release 1 | Nile | October 2001 |
The early theme was rivers. Later the names would change based on the release intent.
The earliest code name I still remember is “South Beach” which was used for the first WinFrame 1.5 release in 1995.
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If you would like to follow me on Twitter, my twitter account is @JeffMuirAu. No big promises but it seems to be easier to share bits of information on Twitter than to blog about them. The link is https://twitter.com/JeffMuirAu to add.
Inspiration to join Twitter came from BriForum when it became obvious that there was more going on than just the conversations at the sessions. As I have done before, I thank Jason Conger for enlightening me.
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There is some news to share about the Citrix Mobility Pack.
We have started work on the next version of the Citrix Mobility Pack and SDK. Customer feedback played a major role in prioritizing the features. It is still not too late to voice opinions about what the SDK should support. However, the window for changing the requirements is quickly closing.
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When we shipped the XenApp 6.5 Mobility Application SDK (XAMA SDK for short) last December, it included documentation and samples. Unfortunately the documentation and samples were not tied together on the web pages and it was not obvious that the samples were there.
This has changed this week.
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During the initial development of XenApp Mobile Pack, certain choices were made for the status/error codes. This all made sense during that time but certain topics have come up since then which requires attention. Nothing serious, but rather more of an indication that things need to be better explained.
When something new is created, it is often difficult to capture its essence in words. If not that, then it is hard to know where to start. Sometimes it is much easier to create with the hope that the explanation will happen later.
Later is now. In the coming weeks we will be providing new documentation and samples. We are also providing our first videos for the SDK. This is a new business model for us and we are working hard to make sure that the SDK is accepted and used in businesses.
Today I am going to cover the SDK functional groups. The hope is that describing the functionality in groups will make it easier to understand what the API can do overall. The first stop is the documentation on the web. Please take a moment to look at the functional groups. This documentation page was only meant for C/C++ but the ideas could be mapped to COM and C# as well.
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