Solving Performance Problems At The Network Edge For Citrix WinFrame-Based Applications
White Papers A multinational company wants to implement an ERP system extending to over 200 sites around the world. For both cost and control reasons, the company decides to centralize the applications and provide access for remote locations using Citrix...
[October 20, 2003, 0:00]
Networks '97: Citrix Paints NT And Picasso Future
News Citrix will launch WinFrame 1.7 at the Networks '97 show in Birmingham today, while revealing tentative plans for its next generation software codenamed 'Picasso'. Citrix will then take this multi-user version of NT and build its WinFrame ICA...
[June 25, 1997, 13:49]
MS Gunning For Citrix, Traveling Software
News Citrix's WinFrame is the server software used by diskless terminals to remotely run NT from the server. If successful, the move would remove WinFrame's raison d'etre at a stroke. Now, Microsoft has told Citrix that it plans to build the concurrent...
[February 28, 1997, 10:32]
Windows By Other Means
White Papers An analysis of Citrix WinFrame, Wyse Winterm and their use at BT Syncordia.This paper explores the Citrix Thin-Client Server Computing architecture created by Citrix in greater depth and draws on the experiences of BT Syncordia in implementing...
[December 30, 2003, 23:00]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Fact is, there isn't a PC capable of loading Excel as fast as a WT can bring it up as a client on an NT Winframe from Citrix. The fastest PC I've seen, even with Excel already cached, can't give you a worksheet on screen in less than six seconds; a...
[October 25, 1997, 1:00]
Maxspeed Case Study: Mountaineer Gas
White Papers MaxStations Dominion installed 12 MaxStations and a Dominion System MicroMainframe server running Citrix Winframe 1.7 thin-client/ server software and DirectICA, Citrix's driver for direct video connections.
[January 26, 2005, 23:00]
Fujitsu-ICL Will Badge Wyse Thin Client
News The Winterm runs Windows programs hosted on an NT-based WinFrame server using an X Windows-like protocol. The Japanese giant will re-badge Wyse's Winterm thin client, calling it the ErgoWin, in a deal expected to be worth about £500,000 a year.
[December 6, 1996, 10:41]
Psion Series 5 Due In Hand Next Week
News Based on a 200MHz ARM chip, the London-based firm's Series 5 will offer the new 32bit EPOC32 operating system and application suite, 640 x 480 backlit screen, pen-input capabilities, tighter integration with Windows 95 and NT 4.0, network support...
[June 13, 1997, 12:12]
Networks '97: Citrix Blasts NC Architecture
News Talking at the Networks '97 show in Birmingham, Templeton outlined Citrix's plans for its thin client/server computing architecture, code named Picasso, while launching WinFrame 1.7. Vice-president of marketing Mark Templeton said the NC will not...
[June 25, 1997, 12:22]
CeBIT: IBM Tackles Thin Client Confusion
News The first in a series of such variants is called "Quick On for running Windows", which enables one thin client to act as an operating system server for up to 14 other thin clients, thereby enabling each to connect directly to a Citrix Winframe or...
[March 19, 1999, 11:14]
Corel Aims For Enterprise With Java Groupware
News Cowpland said ORB will offer technology similar to Citrix's WinFrame but with a lower bandwidth demand and faster performance. CEO and chairman Michael Cowpland said the Canadian firm is moving into "phase two" of its Java plans, renaming its...
[August 19, 1997, 16:24]
A Year Ago: Networks '97: Citrix Blasts NC Architecture
News Talking at the Networks '97 show in Birmingham, Templeton outlined Citrix's plans for its thin client/server computing architecture, code named Picasso, while launching WinFrame 1.7. Thin client/server specialist Citrix slammed the NC architecture...
[June 25, 1998, 6:23]
Citrix Customers Fear Windows, Get Linux
News Despite its close relationship with Microsoft, which licensed the company's original WinFrame thin client software as the basis for its Windows Terminal Server, Citrix has been paying increasing attention to Linux.
[May 15, 2003, 9:00]
IBM To Reinvent OS/2 For NC Serving
News Bluebird requires an OS/2 Warp server; but it uses Java and Citrix WinFrame or NTerprise type Windows distributed application servers to provide 32-bit Windows apps where needed, as well as Dos and OS/2 and mainframe terminal emulation.
[May 13, 1997, 8:14]
Boundless NC Has Limits
News But otherwise, we run the Winframe software on a server, which gives each user access to an NT or Windows 95 desktop with their own CONFIG and initialisation files, but sharing all the executable code centrally.
[September 3, 1996, 16:00]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Boundless, I quickly realise, is a word meaning "useless without a network" -- this Windows box costs £500 odd, and doesn't even include Windows, can't use a CD drive, and relies on a remote Windows "server" called Winframe (from Citrix).
[September 7, 1996, 9:03]
Corel NC Due October
News Unlike [Citrix's] WinFrame, you don't have to give up any functionality," he said. Corel chief Michael Cowpland said today that the firm's long-waited NC boxes will be available from October. In London this morning, Cowpland, the UK-born CEO and...
[August 11, 1997, 10:43]
