Well for starters what would be REALLY cool woud be for Citrix to get with it and create a Mobile website at say m.citrix.com that users could easily download the client to their smartphone devices as well as read news, etc about Citrix on their device.

JK

Our company uses Blackberry devices extensively.  From what I understand the iPhone is going to have a difficult entry into the enterprise due to the high costs along with the encryption not being robust.  So that will probably keep us in the Blackberry area for a bit.

What I would like to see is if Blackberry comes out with their Thunder device (and if it holds true to their promises) that a client would be developed for it.

We need to be able to manage a lot of our IT infrastructure remotely.  If I can do a majority of my tasks via Citrix I would be thrilled.  I'm already publishing a bunch of apps to our people that allows them to remotely administer from the nether regions.  But this would free us up quite a bit and allow for us to publish normal applications such as Office, etc. to mobile users.  This would be a heck of a lot better than the native functionality.

I think this is a conversation I won't forget anytime soon.

How often do you get to sum a business case around something that customers have demanded? I guess not too often.

I see the iPhone ICA client as a unique indicator of benefits mobile devices can/will add to the future of mobile computing.

I can't wait the day I will be able to get in my office, dock my phone, extending the display to my large monitor, while connecting to my bluetooth keyboard and mouse.... Awww, Utopia. Or isn't it?

With VDI and the ICA Client on devices like iPhone or the latest Windows Mobile Devices (i.e. HTC Touch Pro/Diamond) we will certainly come close to achieve the nirvana state of computing.

best,
Gus.

We are getting more special requests all the time. This is a problem for us in IT but something we are more open to accomidating than we were in the past.

Our clients especially the CEOs always tend to want what others have. So that means if a CEO of a client sees a colleague with something that he/she sees as better than what they have, then they want it. From there, the trend usually occurs that what starts at the CEO level filters down to the employee level.  

 It is actually how we go about selling the benefits of Citrix and SBC computing in general, give something to the top end so they can access their information anywhere, and they quickly see the benefits. The iphone, from what I can see, is something that is driven from a want rather than a need. But that want, is generated at all levels including the top. So a CEO is going to get one of these and expect everything to work on it, including Citrix.

Isn't the goal of IT to enable technology to assist the end user (humans) in becoming more efficient?

To that end, I believe a user's 'wants' is their desire to utilize technology that would make them more efficient.

Apple seems to understand these 'wants' and designs technology with the user's 'wants' in mind.  That, I believe,

is the success of products like the iPhone, not that it is a cool 'fad'.  In the often stressful workplace, users (like

myself) appreciate not having to remember what key, in what order, under what menu, with what command is

needed to reach a colleague to chat. 

Citrix client services products also allow a user to be more efficient, by allowing remote connectivity.

We may not 'need' Citrix clients to team up with the iphone, but it would sure make users more efficient (carrying

one mobile device around) and happier.

Thanks,

Mike Stein, M.D.

we are remote users of citrix we have no office other than virtual. our phones are our office - but I want an iphone, my MD wants an iphone, we've used imate htc touch- all work fine, as does blackberry, but that doesnt change the fact that iphones are cool and we all want it. so, at the end of the day, whether it be iphone or what ever is out next year, surely citrix is obliged to keep up with trends given in IT they develop so fast, and wouldnt their compatibity come down to software?

make an app for iphone, wm6, and blackberry.

it people everywhere would love it.

Actually, Citrix has had an ICA client for Windows Mobile for years, and the current 10.0 version does support WM6 and WM6.1.  You can download the ARM 10.0 client from http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=3607&productId=186 on the Citrix download site.

Citrix has also had for years an ICA cleint for Nokia Symbian devices, including a new client for the new E Series devices running Series 60 symbian OS: http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=23674&productId=186. 

Yes, please develop an ICA client for the iPhone.  Our IT has standardized on Citrix Secure Gateways for remote access and has taken away OWA.  IT has not embraced iPhones to allow VPN access since they are devices that they cannot control for patches, malware, etc.  iPhones are not permitted on the internal enterprise network, but can access the public network provided for visitors and patients.  Basically, Citrix is the only option for an iPhone.  For those of us that are in an on-call rotation, remote access with an iPhone would be liberating.  Thanks.

I am a physician and my hospital (as are most hospitals) is moving toward an electronic medical record. It already allows providers outside the hospital to access medical records via the web with the Citrix ICA client. The hospital has already enhanced its internal 802.1 system which will allow handheld devices like iphone to attach to it. I could use the iPhone to connect to the electronic medical record without fighting the nurses for a terminal--and lose.

(I accidently posted this same comment in another blog, but the comment belongs here.)