Thanks everybody! <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/21 Ted Rodgers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ted.d.rodgers@gmail.com">ted.d.rodgers@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I used citrix metaframe presentation server pretty extensively for<br>
awhile, mostly on the admin side of things. It's interesting in that<br>
it can be run to serve out and load balance both Windows and *nix<br>
applications to hosts clients running any OS. Overall, it was not bad<br>
at all, particularly for serving out from Windows servers. Their<br>
management tools were very nice and added a lot of features to normal<br>
Windows servers.<br>
<br>
The client side of things was alright, too. Their ICA client<br>
integrates perfectly with Windows clients and pretty well with clients<br>
running Gnome. Other Linux desktops are supported less well when it<br>
comes to integration and by default gave a weird ugly panel with the<br>
application icons on it. With some hacking on the config it did work<br>
well and looked nice, nearly as nice as under Gnome. The Mac client<br>
was pretty aweful looking out of the box, but could probably be<br>
customized to look better as well. The downside to hacking the<br>
configs is that it was pretty poorly documented even though many<br>
options appeared, although were commented, in the config files.<br>
<br>
The major drawback with using Citrix is that from my experience they<br>
really really push you to set it up using both a Windows domain and to<br>
use IIS to serve it out. It does work with Apache, too, though. And<br>
*nix servers can do the serving; with some tweaking any kind of backed<br>
can do the client authentication, too. Another very nice feature is<br>
the drag and drop capabilities between your client and the server<br>
storage servers. Even on *nix and Mac, any directory can be mapped to<br>
any location you have access to in the Citrix farm.<br>
<br>
One major pro of Citrix is that as long as you use one of their<br>
prefered setups, their support is top notch.<br>
<br>
My experience with Xen has been less, but it worked alright when I<br>
used it. Their are are other easier virtualization technologies out<br>
there.<br>
<br>
If you or your environment are interested in Microsoft technologies,<br>
Citrix is not a bad route to go. It fixes a lot of quirks people get<br>
when using a normal Windows server in Application Server mode. But,<br>
there is always the fact that Microsoft owns a whole lot of the Citrix<br>
company, so that is always a factor.<br>
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