| Tarantella CEO: Citrix War Is Over |
| Saturday, 20 November 2004 by Michel Roth | |||
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.... CRN: What differentiates your approach to terminal services? WILDE: We're a Linux/Solaris-centric solution. People say we're Citrix for Linux. That's one way to look at it, but customers don't see Citrix and Tarantella competing for a couple of reasons. When you look at the capability that we deliver to a customer, it's very complementary to what Citrix does. Citigroup is a huge Citrix company and a huge Tarantella installation. What Tarantella does is allow us to take Unix applications and deliver that to any user while they use Citrix to be able to deliver Web-based applications to any user. CRN: So the battle with Citrix is over? WILDE: I think that was yesterday's war. We didn't get into this business to go beat the crap out of Citrix. We got into this business to be able to get a return for our shareholders. They've got great products. They do a really good job in the Microsoft environment. If you want to run on Microsoft, that's a great solution. But we have a different approach. Our approach is if you run on Linux, then you don't need anything else. ... Read the whole interview here.
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