Citrix To Bring Millions of Windows Apps To iPhone 172
Anonymous writes "Citrix is putting out word that it's developing an iPhone receiver that could make 'millions' of Windows applications work on Apple's handset. (Something Citrix is calling 'Project Braeburn.')
Aside from Flash and a few other apps, is anyone pining for Windows-based apps on the iPhone? (Exchange on the iPhone seems to be successful, but so does Apple's App store, which has done pretty well without Windows.)"
Once again... (Score:5, Insightful)
An answer to a question nobody was asking.
Why not? (Score:3, Insightful)
Why not? This is an exploration of business opportunities, so more power to them!
Umm... (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm sure that a lot of people will find this quite useful(I know the iPhone-carrying; but otherwise MS-headed network manager at my workplace will be all over it); but this is neither surprising nor especially interesting, and far from groundbreaking. Citrix will(assuming they manage to beat x11 support out the door) be the third graphical remote protocol to make it to the iPhone. Useful for people in environments that use citrix; but hardly novel.
Re:Do we want this? (Score:4, Insightful)
Why would that worry anyone? And what is wrong with Windows CE applications?
Re:lol citrix (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Umm... (Score:5, Insightful)
Published applications, server clusters, connection management... I could go on for a good while regarding the merits of Citrix.
Who's asking... (Score:3, Insightful)
X server, but with security and compression (Score:4, Insightful)
You mean ssh -CX, which everyone is using? You sound as if security and compression were unavailable for X, and the opposite is true.