Citrix Takes Stake In Mobile Windows Middleware Company

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Thursday, 17 March 2005 by Michel Roth

Another step for Citrix in expanding their "acces-strategy" ;

Citrix Systems has taken a minority stake-hold in AppSwing, a company that develops middleware software that translates existing Windows applications so that they can be viewed in the browser of a wireless handheld device. AppSwing will use the funding to further develop and market AppServer, software that is described as similar to existing screen-scraper technology. "It is actually probably best described as a message-scraping application," Arthur Morris CEO of AppSwing explained. "It is designed to transform application interfaces to WML, HTML and XML which can be viewed on a remote device and without the use of any client software." It calls for no connectors or database queries or any need to modify the underlying Microsoft application code, it is claimed.

At the back end AppServer uses Microsoft Terminal Server or Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server.

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