Archive for February, 2008
February 29, 2008
There has already been a number of posts about Project Apollo. The Apollo project is focused on improving the performance of graphically intensive applications over ICA. It is directly related to the pioneering work done as part of the Boeing/Pictor work. The link for Project Apollo above includes a video link from [...]
Categories: Apollo
Tags: Citrix Project Apollo
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February 29, 2008
Some people have had trouble downloading the XenDesktop Beta (Feb 200 and I concluded that at least I could help by providing the XenDesktop Getting Started Guide online. The guide is provided with the download kit so this is really just a preview of what you are going to get if you [...]
Categories: XenDesktop
Tags: XenDesktop, XenDesktop Beta, XenDesktop Getting Started
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February 27, 2008
Digging around can pay off. I was looking for a way to get notified of Citrix press releases and hit an About Citrix link. Inside this link is a another link to a video message from Mark Templeton at iForum 2007. For better or worse I have expanded what you can [...]
Categories: Citrix Video
Tags: Citrix Video, iForum 2007, Mark Templeton
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February 27, 2008
For those of you following XenDesktop news, there is now confirmation that the XenDesktop Beta has begun. This is not to be confused with the Citrix XenDesktop Tech Preview which came out last year. Internally this is viewed as being the second wave of XenDesktop made available to customers.
From a very simplistic level, [...]
Categories: Citrix News, XenDesktop
Tags: XenDesktop Beta, XenDesktop FAQ, DDI, VDI
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February 27, 2008
There are a few Citrix videos available on the Internet. I have not found that many yet but persistence usually pays off. Just yesterday I found one via Veoh that featured Russ Naples. I worked with Russ in the old days at Citrix and I would guess that he started not long after me. He [...]
Categories: Citrix History, Citrix Video
Tags: 64-bit support, Citrix History, Citrix Video, Russ Naples
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February 25, 2008
Back when I worked at IBM, there was a push to have more patents. They gave classes about what was valuable and how to best present new ideas for the sake of a patent. Until recently, I kept this material. I saw value in the information and always thought that somehow it [...]
Categories: Citrix History, Citrix Patent
Tags: Citrix Patent, Going public, IBM, OS/2
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February 22, 2008
Pigeons are the stars of this video from Citrix Online’s GoToMyPC. The ads produced for Citrix Online are always impressive with the special effects. From last year, there was this one.
Are you sick of traveling for meetings? Watch your dreams come true with this ad.
I never usually see these kind of [...]
Categories: Citrix Marketing
Tags: Citrix Ads
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February 21, 2008
I am finally updating the revenue history. This was announced last month. The official number was 1.39 billion dollars for total Citrix revenue in 2007. This chart is based on a logarithmic scale and that is why it does not look that impressive between 1.134 billion and 1.39 billion. The [...]
Categories: Citrix News
Tags: Citrix revenue
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February 19, 2008
Some things are hard to find. I’ve been working on this blog since September 2006 and this is the first time I have found an excellent report on Citrix history from an independent source. If you have about ten minutes, please read NetIndustries summary for Citrix. It’s interesting because I’ve never heard [...]
Categories: Citrix History
Tags: Citrix History
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February 18, 2008
I must commend Chris Fleck at Citrix. He has put forward a vision of a world that does not need laptops as we know them today. In January, Chris posted an article calledThe Nirvana device a Smartphone as a PC alternative on the official Citrix blog site. The idea is brilliant. [...]
Categories: Citrix Ideas
Tags: Chris Fleck, Citrix Ideas, Nirvana Smartphone
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