Some folks from a management consulting firm working on a research project recently interviewed me to get my thoughts about the future of the thin client device market space. Here's what I told them......

This is it! This 34-page paper takes you step-by-step through the entire Terminal Server / Citrix MetaFrame performance troubleshooting process. This paper is NOT a mere list of registry hacks. Rather, it shows you the approach to take when troubleshooting Terminal Server performance issues, including slow logons, how to add more users to your server, overall slowness and sluggishness, and random server pauses and hangs. ...

I just published a free 38-page white paper about performance tuning Citrix MetaFrame and Microsoft Terminal Servers....

The next major release of MetaFrame, codenamed "Hudson," will be passed out to attendees of this year's iForum in October 2003....

Let's face it... Citrix needs a way to differentiate themselves from Microsoft. Can purchasing a company like Softricity help releave the pressure?...

In pure Terminal Server environments, people will be better off building quad-processor servers that can each support 300-500 users instead of blades or 1U servers that can only support 50-200 users....

Doug Brown just released the newest version of "Project Compatibility," a free tool that you can use to automatically detect failed printers in Citrix MetaFrame environments. ...

The codename of the next version of Terminal Server is Bear Paw, and it will be released as an add-on to Windows Server 2003....

Now that Microsoft's RDP protocol included in Windows Server 2003 has basically the same functionality as Citrix's ICA protocol, a lot of people are beginning to think about how to load-balance multiple Terminal Servers when Citrix MetaFrame is not used....