| 64 bit changes the rule |
| Friday, 13 October 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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"As part of my trip to Sydney, I met with a Citrix customer - a large local insurance provider. They use Presentation Server for selective client/server applications for their remote users in their branch offices. I'd say a very typical enterprise Citrix customer/user. As part of my meeting, I had two interesting discussions with the customer - one about their overall desktop and application delivery strategy and the other one about 64-bit and financial implications. I will write another blog post for the discussion I had regarding application delivery strategy. This post is about 64-bit technologies. In the room, we had IT managers, Desktop strategists and Citrix architects. There were contemplating 64-bit technologies. They have heard a lot about the benefits of 64-bit technologies when it comes to Terminal Services or CPS; however, they were stuck in a simple loop - "As you adopt 64-bit technologies, cost of server hardware increases in order to support more users per server pretty linearly - so why do I move up to 64-bit for my Citrix server?' " Read the article here.
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