wanna know diff b/w Pcanywhere and Citrix functions...

[alam]

Hi..,
I am pretty new on this site .., Actually i had worked on a software similar to Citrix which also creates the session like citrix.., Now i jus wanna know how different it is from PcAnywhere...if someone out there had worked on BOTH pls kindly inform me.., Presently i dont have CITRIX but might have to work on my future job...so jus thought to bother u people ., Hope i can get a quick reply...

 

[OliverKulbach]

With PC-anywhere you administrate computers which have local software installed. On a Citrix server you install every software only once on the server and on the local PC you only install a citrix-client. When the user log's into the citrix-server and starts i.e. MS Excel, the programm will be executed on the server and not on the local machine. Kind of the good old Unix-terminal emulation. The server does the work, and displays only the result to the user. Thisway you can work with an old 486 an 16MB and use Win2000 anywhere.
Hope that helps
Rgds
Oliver

 

[CitrixEngineer]

MetaFrame is an extension of the operating system. It extends Windows NT (Terminal Server Edition, and a specially re-engineered version of NT 3.51 called WinFrame), Windows 2000, and 3 flavours of UNIX; Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

Citrix produce other products, the most notable of which is NFuse. This allows the delivery of applications across the internet, either as applications embedded in or launched from web pages.

"Applications" can include an entire desktop, so you can effectively have a desktop within your local PCs desktop. You can share information between these two desktops via the clipboard.

Citrix developed the core of the Terminal Services service (originally known as hydra) which is used in NT TSE and W2k. They also developed the Novell Gateway Service and UNIX Integration Service.

The client doesn't have to be a PC - it can be a UNIX/Linux workstation, a CE device (such as a handheld), a MAC - it can be just about anything you can connect to a network.

The idea (and Citrix's mission statement) is "Any Application to Any Device from Any Server - Anywhere!"

That's quite a big difference from PC-Anywhere!

I hope this information is useful