Citrix already provides MetaFrame and
WinFrame connectivity to all leading UNIX platforms via feature-rich Independent Computing Architecture (ICA(R)) clients.
A college may be able to create a computing lab from which students and faculty can access a Citrix
WinFrame system, for example.
and based on Windows NT and Citrix
Winframe server software with a Cruise Technologies client.
When the NetPC failed to take hold, Microsoft came up with another approach using its Windows Terminal Server and
WinFrame NT multiuser technology from Citrix Systems of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Programs such as Citrix
Winframe or W3Launch will be tested; and
On a smaller scale, companies like PowerQuest (PartitionMagic and other disk utilities), Citrix (
WinFrame system software) and Stirling Technologies (InstallShield development tools) seem to have found ways to achieve sustainable growth that often averages more than 100% a year.
Citrix was the company that invented ICA and dubbed its server product as
WinFrame - Windows functionality and flexibility, with Mainframe discipline and control.
WinFrame is a networking system from Citrix that Burnett feels will gain acceptance.
MetaFrame, the company's mainstream server product which turns Windows NT Terminal Server into a multi-user system, accounted for 42% of the revenue during the quarter, with the older
WinFrame product now reduced down to a 2% share.
Its products include GO-Global(tm), the world's first thin X server for PC's running Microsoft(R), Windows(R), GO-Joe(tm), the world's first thin Java(tm) X server, and GO-Between(tm), the world's first thin X server for multi-user NT(R) (such as Microsoft Terminal Server and Citrix
WinFrame).
The Resource Management Services product offers full-featured management tools, such as system monitoring, capacity planning and application audit, for the server environments of Citrix'
WinFrame and MetaFrame and of Microsoft's Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition.
My company, DCI, has met this demand with a product called Routewan, which is based upon Citrix
Winframe technology.