Citrix looks like it has escaped 'not dead yet' status

Wasn't "Kirill Tatarinov" the Russian bad guy on that show?

The stock photo used on this article looks like the title sequence from a late 1960s ITC adventure TV series or something.

I loved watching repeats of "The Man from Citrix" when I was a kid ;-)

RemoteApp s acceptable in small environments where you have enough bandwidth, but is still horrible to manage in larger environments. Also, RDP can't touch ICA/HDX as a remoting protocol on difficult links. Some of the stuff Citrix have done with ICA recently such as the purchase and integration of Framehawk have taken it to another level.

Moving from IMA based Xenapp 6.5 to FMA based 7.x was painful, but it has finally caught up with almost all the features that were missing and is powering ahead with some of the new stuff they are adding. There were a couple of years where we were seriously looking at alternatives, but Xenapp 7.12 is a great product. Improvements to image management with MCS, protocol enhancements, integrating Norskale VUEM and the soon to be added Unidesk, support for seamless publishing of Linux applications, and a lot more.

Integrate it with Netscaler and it is untouchable.

With the new fast release cadence, I find I am looking forward to the new release each 3 months to see what new stuff they have packed in.

I have quit touching Citrix since 2015, boy am I grateful it is no longer the product I support/run/design.

Lists of bugs and problems are endless, you are always the first point of blame, yes BLAME, from everyone including networking team, server teams, middleware team, etc and more and more applications are moving to HTML and only crappy legacy apps like that needs ACTIVE-X! runs on the Citrix servers.

You dont need to worry, problem with app? yes call Citrix Team cause Citrix suck but in fact, the app is just plain suck but no one can get off it or admit it. I've seen shit Java applet, Activex, VB6 app, that had to be deployed via XD?XA, guess what if it doesnt run well on the client, it doesnt either on the server, but no one gives a shit and deploy it on XA/XD.

The biggest problem that I had to get out is, less and less enterprise are remaining on the Xenapp/Xendesktop. Leading to less jobs, less pay, and uncertain future. And my friend who worked for Citrix over 15 yrs got fired last year too. Move on people future is mobile and HTML. (and running nginix/apache, lol)

Citrix was always the poor man's version of ESX

good riddance