I have limited expirience with Xen, but the technology looks sound. I have been using VMWare and Virtualbox for virtualization and have been meaning to compare them to Xen.<br><br>I have used a bunch of Citrix Metaframe in the past. I compare it to crack. It does the job quick, it will cost you allot and people get addicted to it. It did work great for making a old DOS app accessible over the web, but lead to stagnation on the web port. Basically metaframe, or presentation server as it is called now is a way to provide server controlled application environments. Its great to centralize what your users can access.<br>
<br>A cool product for serving up linux apps ina similar way is NoMachine. <a href="http://www.nomachine.com/">http://www.nomachine.com/</a> I used that for a bit to server up a Java Client / Server app. Did a great job, I wish I could find more project to use it on.<br>
<br>Brian<br> <br><br><br>If you are thinking of serving up something on <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Ben Beige <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dariuscardren@gmail.com">dariuscardren@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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support w/ the CMC but it's pretty nice. I've not done more than<br>
install the client in Linux though.<br>
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:44 AM, David J. Pryke <<a href="mailto:david-wplug@pryke.us">david-wplug@pryke.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> George Larson wrote:<br>
>> Anybody got any strong opinions about Citrix (or alternatives)?<br>
>><br>
>> I was asked my opinion for a project at work but I don't have enough<br>
>> experience to have an informed opinion.<br>
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> Are you referring to a specific product, such as XenServer?<br>
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> David J. Pryke<br>
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