XenDesktop/VDI as a product concept can now categorically be called a flop. The arrogance on how FMA was implemented (no migration path, no upgrade possibility, no guides and assistance to customers) is what opened up Citrx's flank to attack from Vmware and others. You can survive one of these mistakes, but, the one-two punch is going to set back Citrix for a long time.
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Thanks @2giq
"showing its age"
IMA cannot scale to the endpoint counts that exist or are required for desktop replacement. 10,20...30k vdas are possible. Imagine that under IMA?!? The whole thing would come crumbling down.
That being said, vdi as a marketplace fizzled...it was the wrong technology to pivot to. ANd merging IMA with FMA to create one unified product was a HUGE failing of the product management team, especially without feature parity.
This guy just clipped and posted something from another thread (what is Citrix's competitive advantage). We're being trolled.
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showing its age
FMA Sucks for XenApp
You can't be serious. IMA served the platform well but its time was up - it was showing its age and needed refreshing for the next generation of releases.
Could the migration tools and bizarre "XenApp customers, meet XenDesktop Actually scrap that, we mean welcome back to XenApp which is actually XenDesktop with different branding. Oh, you want legacy features...errr let us get back to you" messaging have been better managed by PM? Absolutely. But don't stab the actual engineering teams who built and evolved the platform as specced - they were only doing as instructed.
If you seriously think sticking with IMA without evolving it for the future was a plan for success and that VMware would have not touched Citrix customers as a result; you are as deluded as some of the bean counters who booted out some amazing talent in the last 12 months.
The architect who moved to the US thought it wasn't important. The other one who had the vision left the company
You need to be blaming the pms and architects for their short sightedness. Xendesktop was originally a completely seperate product with no intention of ever doing apps. I remember sitting in on meetings years ago with a former xendesktop architect who kept saying customers want zone preference and failover. That was about 5 years ago and we still don't have it properly. You can blame an architect who moved to the US for that one...