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on Oct 21, 2008 07:14.


 
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 BYOC is exactly what you'd hope it would be. Citrix grants a $2,100 stipend every three years. Employees purchase the laptop of their choice, be it an $800 Dell, a Toshiba tablet, 17-inch MacBook Pro, or $4,000 gaming machine. The only requirements: a 3-year support contract, up-to-date anti-virus, the ability to connect to the corporate SSL VPN, and, of course, running XenApp for delivery of all required business apps.
  
 http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/10/citrix_tries_by.html
  [http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/10/citrix_tries_by.html]
  
I think this is a great idea and actually know a few employees who have opted to do this, but the one thing that I don't like is that the $2,100 is taxed, so you really only end up getting around $1,400 after taxes.
  I think this is a great idea and actually know a few employees who have opted to do this, but the one thing that I don't like is that the $2,100 is taxed, so you really only end up getting around $1,400 after taxes, and then the computer you buy then has taxes added on depending on where and how you purchase it, thus dropping that $1,400 down even further, to something more like $1,200
  
But Then again you get to pick the exact computer configured the way you want!
  
 But Then again you get to pick the exact computer configured the way you want\!