Archive for February, 2008

Citrix Project Apollo

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 [...]

Getting Started with XenDesktop Beta (Feb 2008)

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 [...]

iForum 2007 - Mark Templeton Video Presentation

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 [...]

XenDesktop Beta

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, [...]

Russ Naples Video About 64-bit Computing (2005)

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 [...]

My First Citrix Patent

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 [...]

Citrix Online Commercials

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 [...]

Updated Citrix Revenue History

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 [...]

More Citrix History (1989-2002)

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 [...]

Visions of Nirvana - Less Is More

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. [...]