Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin vs VMWare

[DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

> > Once Citrix Server for Linux is out, the possibility of delivering these
> > "Win4Lin'ed" Applications and other X apps via low speed links like the
> > Internet or modem become a possibility, opening up huge new avenues of
> > interest from ASP companies.
> 
> Erm, didn't Citrix get bought by Microsoft and the product turned into
> Windows Terminal Server?  ie, what you suggest above isn't going to happen
> while Hell remains >0 Kelvin.

Nope.

While Microsoft may own some portion of Citrix, the two products are
definitely seperate.

As I understand it, Crtrix Metaframe will actually run on _top_ of
terminal server and provide additional functionality. TS is not a ver good
product - it simply gives you the option of running a "genuine microsoft"
engine under Metaframe as opposed to the "Citrixified" version which comes
in other versions.

I believe that the Citrix one is based on the NT 3.51 kernel rather than
NT 4, but this could be really outdated information - it's been a while,
and I haven't seen the latest versions of metaframe.

DaZZa

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