Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Citrix Access Essentials for SMB's

I didn't comment on it previously but it now appears that Citrix is jumping on the SBS bandwagon. Any why wouldn't they? Citrix, Microsoft Unveil Access Version For SMBs

We've done Citrix for a while and I even went to the Citrix Partner conference in Orlando this year (renting out MGM Studios for the party was a highlight!) so I'm pretty up to date with Citrix. I've long been certified as a Citrix Enterprise Engineer but that name in itself describes Citrix's usual suspects...the Enterprise space. Or at least for us the mid market space (50 PC's and up).

I'll be interested to see how this is accepted in the SMB Space. It's hard to beat the features that SBS has in it already, however the one thing that I believe Citrix has done better than just about any Microsoft Partner out there is consistently provide better features before Microsoft incorporates those into the base Server products.

I'll definitely take a look when it comes out. If you've seen it or used it let me know how it goes.