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Citrix vs 2K Term Services

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by ilium_78

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Can someone give me some guidance in my decision to go with either Citrix or Term Services solutions for our company. I have trialled both and both seem to give excellent performance for our database application. Just wanting to know key areas that may have influenced decision making
for other in the same situation. I realise that the cost factor is far greater with the Citrix solution, but dont want this to be the limiting factor.

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by mcse_ed

My experience with Term Server and Citrix have been positive. The applications we are using is in the Health Care Industry. Here is the scenario.

We have 18 branch office spread throughout the state. All but four of the centers are single serverbased locations. The four centers that connect to the network through routers are better served with Citrix. For some reason these locations tend to bog down the network when working with Term Services or the connection would time out. The Citrix connection was much more efficient and bandwith was not effected. When these centers had the connection through Term Server, bandwith was affected. We were not able to determine the cause for this.

by sedona

Well...the biggest difference is that Citrix supports different OSs. You have ICA clients for Mac and Linux as well as MS OSs. Last time I checked, Term Svs only worked with MS OSs.
In addition, I belive ICA is a more efficient protocol. Now, with citrix, you can also use JAVA and HTTP to push applications. Not sure if TS provides that. Finally, Citrix has the capability of mapping local drives/printers. I don't recall TS havin that feature.

Hope that helps.

by colin.durrant

We are using Citrix to give remote offices access to our database application. Citrix makes managing the remote users a lot eaiser. You can see which applications are being used by who and on which Citrix server. It does cost a lot of money but worth it for the ease of management especially if you have a large number of users. Feel free to email me for further help.

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