Microsoft: It’s Time to Consummate the Marriage with Citrix Already
112 days ago
The relationship between Microsoft and Citrix is much like that of a man who has been serially dating the same woman for 15 years, but never seems to be able to consummate the deal. He’s afraid of commitment, or perhaps like that old expression goes, why would he buy the cow when he can have the milk for free?
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For those of you not familiar with the long-lasting whirlwind romance, let us go back a bit, back when many of you readers were still bedwetting. In the early 1990’s Citrix introduced its first product, MULTIUSER, which was a specially modified multi-user version of the OS/2 operating system, which for those of us old enough to remember was still a cooperative effort between IBM and Microsoft at the time. Its primary target market was for companies who wanted to provide remote access to applications from branch offices and feild personnel, which often only had 19.2K/28.8K/56K dial up modems or leased lines.
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