Citrix RoundTable - PS4.5, ICA 10.0, Tarpon...
I spent few days at UK listening to upcoming Citrix product - and I wanted to share my feelings...
Citrix is DOOMED :)
No, really, the whole presentation was quite stupid. There are not many new things coming.
Presentation Server 4.5
It provides "Project Tarpon", which is streaming of applications. This is nothing new - Softgrid (and now Microsoft) had Softricity for quite a long time. I can say that (compared to Softricity) Tarpon is nothing special. However at least it is available finally :) Big question now is how will Microsoft license Softricity - right now license is extremely cheap (10$ including bunch of other utilities), so I was not really excited by Tarpon.
Another "big" change is transfer of functionality from CMC (which is very stupid) to MMC (which isnt much better ;)). Problem is that version X.5 means that not everything was moved from CMC to MMC - and you must switch between these two consoles to perform some tasks. And this is really stupid :(
ICA Client 10.0
Nothing really new - per-user installation (without admin rights) was quite interesting, however nothing extremely cool. Support for MUI (multiple languages) is standard today and on normal presentation it will be just one line at the end of new features list - however on this presentation citrix guys spent 20 minutes (!!!) describing that you can change language, they had 8 slides (!!!) including installation screenshots... Really stupid :(
To be honest I was really disappointed - this presentation could took 1 hour instead of 1 day.