Interested in Thin Client Technology?

Well I'm finishing up my 2 weeks of time in Florida with the wife and kids (its currently sunny and 74) and enjoyed doing a bit of business as well this week. I attended the Citrix Solutions Summit (www.citrix.com) where there were several key presentations on Citrix trying to get further into the SMB market. If you're interested in thin client or server based applications then you need to check out Citrix. They really do own this market.

I've been involved with Citrix for close to 10 years now and have enjoyed seeing better products keep coming out. The newest Presentation Server is great to work with when run on top of Windows 2003 server. If you run a specialty app like SAP or another accounting app and want secure remote access encrypted over the wire with little rollout time involved then Citrix is for you. Using a web interface on the front can let your users get to their applications as easily as going to a web site typing in their credentials and letting Citrix do the rest. More often times than not it is totally justified in the Enterprise space but SMB's with remote workers or specialty apps will find Citrix very justifiable and well worth the cost.

One item that Citrix was pushing very heavy is the Citrix Access Gateway that will provide secure VPN's into the network and then allow you as well to use over 2000 tunnels of Citrix ICA traffic if you like.

If you're interested in any of the above check out Citrix. They have some great items and we've been sold on them for a long time for the ease with which you can rollout applications. Oh and I'm not just saying that because they rented out Disney/MGM studios for a fabulous end of conference party. Talk about being treated first class! You can only ride Aerosmith's Rock n Roller Coaster so many times. Oh well now back to snowy and cold Michigan.