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RES Software and Overlap (Pierre Marmignon) bury the hatchet

shawn@shawnbass.com — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:56:36 GMT

RES Software and Overlap group reach mutual agreement that allows Overlap to continue distributing RES Products and RES ceases their lawsuit regarding VUEM.

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If you can't beat them, sue the pants off of them...

shawn@shawnbass.com — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:06:53 GMT

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Live Blogging Citrix Synergy Berlin Day 1 Keynote

shawn@shawnbass.com — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:30:34 GMT

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Live Blogging Citrix Synergy Day 2 Keynote

shawn@shawnbass.com — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:27:00 GMT

Live Blogging Citrix Synergy Day 1 Keynote

shawn@shawnbass.com — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:25:41 GMT

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Advanced Citrix Training Class in Malmo, Sweden has been canceled due to volcanic ash

shawn@shawnbass.com — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:52:44 GMT

Talk about a blog entry I never thought I'd be writing... "Training class canceled due to volcano"?

Benny Tritsch and I had to make a tough decision in canceling our Citrix Training class in Sweden next week due to the extremely difficult European travel situation because of the volcano in Iceland. We're currently working out a plan of action with our training partners in Sweden to reschedule this class. Stay tuned for details on when that reschedule will happen.

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Advanced Citrix Training in Oslo, Norway is sold out. Don't worry though, there's another one in Malmo, Sweden!

shawn@shawnbass.com — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:54:39 GMT

My Olso, Norway training class scheduled for March 22-26th is full. There are open seats in the Malmo, Sweden class that is running April 19th-23rd. If you want to get a chance to attend the Advanced Citrix class while it's still in Europe then sign up for Malmo. Registration information for Malmo can be found here.

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Advanced Citrix training schedule posted for 2010

shawn@shawnbass.com — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:08:46 GMT

I've just posted up details on the schedule of classes for 2010. There are currently four scheduled classes next here in the following locations and dates:

Oslo, Norway Mar 22-26
Chicago, IL May 24-28
New York, NY Aug 9-13
San Diego, CA Nov 8-12

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Installation of MS patch KB973917 might break Citrix Web Interface sites

shawn@shawnbass.com — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:54:39 GMT

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Who says Citrix doesn't listen to their customers? New XenDesktop 4 licensing models introduced (including CCU)

shawn@shawnbass.com — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:05:18 GMT

Sumit Dhawan has posted a blog entry describing licensing changes that Citrix has made in response to direct customer feedback. While I assumed that Citrix would eventually breakdown and agree to support additional licensing models, this is more comprehensive than I expected they would do. The models are now:

Per user licensing (this is still per user and not named user)
Per device licensing (XD can be used by unlimited users on a given device) - New option that's great for factories, healthcare, shift workers, etc.
Campus-wide licensing program - New option that would be great for educational markets and mirrors the model of Microsoft's Campus licensing program
New Edition of XenDesktop (VDI Edition) - Essentially what the old XenDesktop Advanced Edition was before it was killed off. This will include Citrix Provisioning Server, StorageLink for XenServer, and User Profile Management. This edition is capable of being licensed per user/per device or on a CCU (concurrent user basis). The trick here is that the CCU model requires the $199/ccu sticker price. This effectively means that there is no longer a CCU option at $99/user (which is what the old Standard Edition was). Citrix claims this is due to not a lot of customer uptake of the Standard Edition product. While that may be the case, Standard Edition was perfect for those who wanted just the ICA protocol and weren't interested in doing Provisioning Server, etc. If this is the worst of the licensing changes, I suppose customers will have to deal with this and just accept it. It certain puts customers in a much better place.

All of the above being said, it'll be VERY interesting to see how the licensing happens for all of this. There's already some licensing challenges and now that there's multiple different license types available, it'll be interesting to see how these licenses get deployed, allocated, revoked and troubleshot.

All in all a prettty good move by Citrix.