February 2008 - Brian Madden Brian Madden

I know what you're thinking. "Novell is still around? And they have an extra $205m in cash?" I don't know too much about PlateSpin or Novell (in the context of 2008), so in this article I'll look at both companies and try to establish a framework for a conversation from readers about what this could mean....

Another interesting thing that happened when I had the flu last week was that Sun bought a small German company called Innotek, the maker of an open source desktop VM product called VirtualBox....

Citrix announced a new product, called "Citrix Workflow Studio," as part of their multi-product announcement last week. Based on Microsoft's Windows Workflow Foundations, Citrix Workflow Studio is a graphical workflow environment where you can drag-and-drop configuration elements of your Citrix environment. Once you get everything set up how you want it, you can click "go" and the system will go out and build or configure your real environment just as you modeled it....

Warren Simondson ( remember him from last month ) has created a web page you can use when testing the performance of Flash applications when delivering a web browser via Citrix or Terminal Services. http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au/CAD_FlashTest.htm To...