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Citrix To Bring Millions of Windows Apps To iPhone

Posted by timothy on from the your-chocolate-got-in-my-melted-cheese dept.

Anonymous writes "Citrix is putting out word that it's developing an iPhone receiver that could make 'millions' of Windows applications work on Apple's handset. (Something Citrix is calling 'Project Braeburn.') Aside from Flash and a few other apps, is anyone pining for Windows-based apps on the iPhone? (Exchange on the iPhone seems to be successful, but so does Apple's App store, which has done pretty well without Windows.)"

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  1. Once again... by dr_strang · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An answer to a question nobody was asking.

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  2. Why not? by vvaduva · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why not? This is an exploration of business opportunities, so more power to them!

  3. Umm... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Citrix is thinking of releasing an ICA client for the iPhone. Wow. That is really "Bring[ing] millions of Windows apps to iPhone." Right. ICA is arguably superior(and certainly more common in business type scenarios); but VNC on iPhone is old news and does pretty much the same thing. Hell, it looks like an RDP client is also available.

    I'm sure that a lot of people will find this quite useful(I know the iPhone-carrying; but otherwise MS-headed network manager at my workplace will be all over it); but this is neither surprising nor especially interesting, and far from groundbreaking. Citrix will(assuming they manage to beat x11 support out the door) be the third graphical remote protocol to make it to the iPhone. Useful for people in environments that use citrix; but hardly novel.

    1. Re:Umm... by 222 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I hate to sound like an ass, but there is a massive difference between ICA and X11 or VNC as far as real world implementations go. Aside from the overwhelming technical differences, real world usage scenarios are also vastly different. I suppose I'm biased, as we're a Citrix shop here, but one of these things is definitely not like the other, rightly so. X11 is flexible enough to be a remote display protocol, and VNC simply does what it set out to; not bad in either case.

      Published applications, server clusters, connection management... I could go on for a good while regarding the merits of Citrix.

  4. Re:Do we want this? by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would that worry anyone? And what is wrong with Windows CE applications?

  5. Re:lol citrix by nicolas.kassis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually the protocol citrix uses kicks microsoft rdp protocols ass. But citirx is not very reliable.

  6. Who's asking... by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, this is actually an answer to a question asked by the Fortune 500. Even if they intended to write native clients for their custom apps, this sort of things gives them flexibility.

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  7. X server, but with security and compression by Doctor+O · · Score: 3, Insightful

    think X server, but with security and compression

    You mean ssh -CX, which everyone is using? You sound as if security and compression were unavailable for X, and the opposite is true.

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