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[Citrix] is a suite of applications that allow applications to be run on hardware and or OS's that do not support them.
%%%Companies often use it to run appications on Thin Clients and/or older hardware.

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[From the Citrix website | http://www.citrix.com]

*Gives workers secure, easy and instant access to enterprise applications and information from anywhere, at anytime, using any device, over any connection."
*Enables IT staffs to manage heterogeneity by centrally consolidating applications, simplifying their deployment, management, monitoring and measurement.
*Ensures that the right people have access to the right resources to protect the security of enterprise information assets
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Citrix suite is broken into 2 main groups which they call [MetaFrame]s 1.8 and XP.

MetaFrame 1.8 is pretty much obsolete as it was for [Windows] NT4 and early versions of [Unix]
%%%MetaFrame XP is the current release and is designed to run on [Windows] 2000, [Windows] 2003, [Solaris], [HPUX] and [AIX].
%%%Currently MetaFrame XP does not support [Linux] and there is no details released to say if it ever will, there is a Citrix client for [Linux] that allows you to make a connection to a [Citrix] server and load applications on your [Linux] desktop.

Citrix like [Microsoft] have their own qualifications network that is taught at many private training schools in NewZealand more information can be found at their [website | http://www.citrix.com]

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Last edited on Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:31:50 am by AdrianKitto

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