can a new startup without much funding build the same plateforms as citrix provide?
brand name and bussiness is another story, lets talk about technical challenges here
what makes citrix relevant in this open-source world?
is "rockylinux" story possile with citrix ?
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Citrix hasn't innovated in years- only promised software fixes that deliver on some promises but mostly introduce new ones that take even longer to fix. "Oh great you fixed the SAML MFP iDP issue but broke load balancing". As a customer I can imagine the frustration trying to get bugs handled and the few remaining support engineers (many of whom are brand new and their seniors have a foot and a half out the door).
I dont blame the developers- they are overworked and given an impossible task list while pulling back their budget and their QA.
Citrix is TOP DOWN broken. It needs a complete overhaul of priorities coming from the new CEO and that unified vision needs to permeate all parts of Citrix. We still doing CVAD? XM? Sharefile? Wrike? Then lets do it and get the people we need.
@snd+1j3WLdiv we are moving across to G-suite come Dec 1, as announced in GEM. Oh we will also be using the much maligned Zoom too!
We do not have access to Microsoft source code. There was once a time 10-12 years ago. Microsoft made us move to all public interfaces.
Not sure that the Citrix-Microsoft romance is really there anymore. It's like a married couple mulling over divorce and sleeping in separate beds because "they're different people now than they were 30 years ago". Microsoft is actively competing (and winning) against Citrix in the DaaS space across many accounts and territories, and they have been for a while. That "better together" messaging was never really promoted as much at MS in the account teams as much as it was at Citrix. Not sure if that longstanding cross-licensing and development agreement that MS and Citrix entered into back in the late 90's is even still applicable anymore from a practical perspective, much less a legal/commercial one. Google seems to be Citrix's new love interest. TIBCO uses Google Workspace and I wouldn't doubt if the plan is to leverage it across the board for Citrix too, replacing MS Teams/MS Office - it's definitely cheaper.
I think Citrix is in trouble with competition. Mark Templeton is on the board of for a major competitor and their product looks pretty good. www.workspot.com
the issue is that Citrix has access to Microsoft source code, and i am not sure that it available to just anyone.
Not new, but an interesting SaaS option. Some modern software companies have already started with "good enough" replacements for Citrix -- see https://cameyo.com