Comments on: Video: Windows on an iPhone

By: Okan Evinc, Finland

Okan Evinc, Finland — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:08:11 +0000

Citrix has over 200,000 enterprise customers with 100,000,000 users of XenApp. We are not talking about some obscure technology, we are talking about the leader in application delivery infrastructure area.

Citrix's delivery method DIFFERS from others in that it is centralized and the user experience is great even with slow connections, you can't do that with VNC or Remote Desktop or infact with any other technology.

Ask your Citrix reseller on these, there are 8000 of them so you will find one in your area!

By: jc, FL

jc, FL — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:43:56 +0000

Most of people here do not know what Citrix is about. This is a company that does remote access for enterprise environment. In a home environment, you put Word on your own PC and then use VNC or whatever $5.99 software to access it remotely. Done. Note the one two one relationship here. In an enterprise environment, the network administrator "deploy" Word on a farm of 100 computers and then all 10,000 employees can use Word remotely anywhere and it "feels" like using their own computer. The difference:

1. The network administrator "deploy" the app once. Not on every computer of their 10,000 employees, not even on every computer of the 100 servers;

2. The individual employee computers are never directly exposed to outside network. This is important for a corporate environment;

By: John, Westford, MA

John, Westford, MA — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:04:31 +0000

You can get this for free with VNC and the free VNC client

ex ped: Not quite. See Bob's comment below. I gather Citrix on an iPhone means a lot to people who work in environments that lean heavily on Citrix app sharing, like hospitals.

By: Patrick Jerry. Belfaux, Switzerland

Patrick Jerry. Belfaux, Switzerland — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:51:10 +0000

Wake up, the clip is obviously a fake! These are only images showed and resized with the iPhone, nothing else.

By: Bob, Chicago, IL

Bob, Chicago, IL — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:44:06 +0000

Those other products give remote access to a particular Windows computer.

The Citrix client gives access to hosted applications on XenApp servers — allowing dozens to hundreds of users to access their applications remotely from a single system, with the very efficient Ctrix ICA display protocol.

One approach is for individual users — the other is for a cost-effective shared application delivery infrastructure.

By: Chris, Fairborn OH

Chris, Fairborn OH — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:25:44 +0000

Remote access to a Windows machine has been available on the iPhone since August, 2008, with both WinAdmin and Remote Desktop (among others) from the iTunes App store.

These "news" stories by Goldman and MacDailyNews appear to be nothing more than paid advertisements from Citrix.

ex ped: Noted. I'll try to find out what Citrix thinks it has that the others don't.