Citrix is motel art

Brian - you can see through the BS - c'mon man.  "Hey, in XenApp 6 you can publish App-V packages directly from XenApp."  Seriously?  Citrix is stealing business and relationships from MSFT - from the hypervisor layer to their own protocol...

I'm Tom Bodett from Motel 6 and we'll keep the light on for you.

You don't tell the guy with a loaded gun pressed hard to your forehead that he's the ugliest mofo you ever laid eyes on!!

Is 2bn in revenue enough to risk breaking the symbiotic ties?

We're unlikely to see any Picasso's hanging on the Motel wall any time soon, high art is uaually only appreciated years after the demise of it's creator.

I'll be honest... why should they?  You claim the world is moving away from Windows but that certainly isn't happening in the corporate world.  Any non-windows device that is brought into our environment immediately requires one thing.... access to their Windows VM to run their business apps.  It's silly to think they would be focused on anything BUT Windows.  Running my Win7 VM brokered through my Netscalers on my iPad is very cool, very usable, and very much what hundreds of our users are now doing from the Senior Management on down.

You've upset Simon.

IBTL (In Before The Lock)

Simon Crosby seems to have disabled comments on his blog entry?

While I agree with his comments regarding VMware (all points raised), I find it amusing that he accuses Brian of being out of touch and then writes his comments about XenClient!

"only enterprise-class type 1 client hypervisor" - Simon kidding right? The only thing XenClient has going for it is the ability to take advantage of a GPU - if your lucky enough to have a machine it works on. It's clearly has work to be done before you can stick enterprise tags and labels to it!

Still, credit to his imaging finding skills :)

@Brian

yeah but the software Citrix develops has to solve problems and have a purpose in order to be relevant and make money.

We all get that you are trying to keep your site as vendor neutral as possible.

@Daniel Bolton

I can see how Simon's reference as being the "only" client hypervisor that is enterprise class can be seen as exagerated, XenClient out of the very few of it's kind is primarily being selected as the number #1 client hypervisor to meet future needs.

clearly you haven't taken a look at this whitepaper from the US DIA:

Implementing New Hardware-Based Information Security Capabilities - premierit.intel.com/.../DOC-5998

This technology will definitely save millions in comparison of having to build "top-secret" isolated networks which have been proposed to us as well.

The challenge has been issued,the gauntlet thrown, the glove slapped across Brian's face..the only thing I care about is: Brian do you accept Simon's challenge of going to the Lion's Den and defend your article @ Citrix Synergy? (all expenses paid of course :) )

That would be epic...!

The sad thing is Simon Crosby is missing a very important message. Citrix + MS is becoming less relevant everyday. While it's entertaining to read the debate, the more Citrix continue to blow MS, the less relevant they become. I for one use their products heavily, but am increasingly worried about enabling MS to F me, when I want to move to a world that consumes a lot more non MS native apps. So debate aside. Citrix should heed the warning while the VMWare should see the opportunity. Also underlines for me why the Quest/Ericom are also F'ed as they are wanna be MS b i t c h e s.

@Appdetective

Funny, in my organization, I would say it's just the opposite. Working for one of the largerst financial services organizations in the world, we used to be in IBMs back pocket. But, I have been amazed at how much we have moved away from non-MSFT technologies in the past 5-7 years. Most of our internal development work has moved from Java platforms to .Net platforms and continues moving in that direction. The number of Windows servers now greatly exceeds the number of NIX platforms. The only non-MSFT products that are gaining any traction is the interest in handheld platforms (other than Blackberry), but even at that, the expectation is that they must be able to run MSFT productivity tools (Outlook, Communicator, etc.). And, I'll give you three guesses as to how we're delivering MSFT apps to iPads?

Brilliant observation and I completely agree.  But it's endemic throughout the org.  A few months back I forwarded a thread to a contact at Citrix which was quickly and summarily rejected by (wait for it...)

Citrix's email profanity filter!!

Apparently, the four letter word for defecation is enough to have my email bounced back unread.  I quickly responded with "B U L L S H I T" (which was not picked up by their "motel art" quality filter).  Your observation reminded me of that event and shows if they're afraid of swearing, they can't be serious about any other fu**ing thing.