Thanks Hank

>Hi Colin,
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>we use Citrix extensively with hosted customers; as well as TS for accessing our own line-of-business applications.
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>Citrix gives administrative ease for doing the things that should be done, such as load balancing and failover. Which can be done with TS, but not with ease. In most situations, Citrix more than pays for itself. That said, TS is getting better every generation (don't use it for business on anything older than Win2K3 unless you like 256 colors on your screens), and if your users have the newest TS client version (not necessarily updated on their computers; use nothing less than 5.2), works pretty well. The ICA (Citrix protocol) is more efficient than the TS protocol when connections are an issue, btw. Otherwise, given broadband, you aren't likely to notice a difference.
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>hth,
>
>Hank
>
>>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?
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>>Thanks
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>>Colin