>Hi
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>I'm planning to link an office in Manhattan with an office at JFK - we want Manhattan users to be able to connect into JFK and run apps off the JFK server
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>Left to my own devices I would connect via gotomypc or remote desktop to some cheap dumb machines in JFK (in the UK they cost $200 each)
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>Now a NY IT company has suggested Citrix Access Gateway - seems expensive requiring another server and user licences - starting price seems to be about $3000
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>Whats the benefit in using Citrix AG?

More control on the server side. Your clients may actually run apps from icons on a webpage, without having to load remote desktop, and you can control the resolution they run in, whether they can run more than one instance (of the same app) at a time etc.

If you're content with them just getting into a remote desktop and doing stuff there, Terminal Services is the ticket - it comes with Windows, isn't too hard to set up, and is historically (IIRC) a simplified version of Citrix.