Citrix XenApp Vs Windows 2008 Terminal Server
With all the new features introduced by Microsoft in Windows 2008 Terminal Services, many have wondered if he still makes sense to invest in licenses of Citrix XenApp (aka Presentation Server). On the one hand there is a reliable and consolidated, with centralized management tools, with products like Citrix Secure Gateway boundary that have achieved stability proverbial. But the other is "the" colossus of computing with a set of new features that meet the needs that are larger and more integrated in the base product, so at no cost. Oh, yes! At the end is just a matter of cost.
In reality today there are still important differences in performance, and management of optimizations that make the natural evolution XenApp and Terminal Services integration.
To help us do an evaluation, Citrix has released a document, document analysis and comparison of features of the two products updated in February 2008. Needless to say, some data in the table are a bit 'vague and seem to be part of it .... but surely it is only a problem related to the need for pagination.
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- Citrix XenApp Vs Windows 2008 Terminal Server: updated document
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- Citrix XenApp release for Windows Server 2008 R2 Technical Preview
- Citrix released XenApp 5 Feature Pack 3 for Windows Server 2003 and 2008
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