Windows 2000 terminal server. Vs. citrix terminal server on w2k

[erezhillel]

IM looking for:
1. windows terminal server rdp6 on w2k
2. citrix terminal server on w2k/nt4
3. windows terminal server rdp6 on w2k verses citrix terminal server on w2k
4. general historical overview on the development of terminal server

Anything will help (web pages, articles, books…)

 

[TheOtherKiwi]

Citrix over Term Services is an easy choice as the bandwidth efficiency, management and stability benefits of Citrix far outweigh the creaking crock that makes term services only useful for remote admin and not a heck of a lot else. See:

http://www.thethin.net

or

http://www.thinworld.com

or
your favourite search engine...

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Brief history:

In the late 1980's, a guy named Ed Janacek developed a client-server extension to IBM's OS/2 operating system. IBM thought it was pretty good, but decided not to invest in it. History repeated itself, and Ed took his idea to Bill Gates a few years later.

He and his team were given permission to modify the kernel for Windows NT 3.5. The project was code-named Picasso, and the final product was WinFrame.

Microsoft were going through some particularly heavy times with the DoJ, and Ed's team got Microsoft to license their code. The agreement was for 10 years or so, with Ed's new company, Citrix.

In 1998, Microsoft's project Hydra became Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, and Citrix MetaFrame was sold as a separate extension to this Operating System. The code that drove the Terminal Services is still Citrix's, however.

Windows 2000 server comes with the same Terminal Services built in. It's good, but very basic still. RDP is a less efficient protocol than ICA, and Terminal Server lacks most of the management features that make MetaFrame a feature rather than an option in a large corporation.

MetaFrame XP uses a new XML-based protocol called IMA (Independent Management Architecture), using Data Collectors and a central Data Store to replace the somewhat flaky ICA browser.

MetaFrame also runs on 3 varieties of UNIX platforms.

The best book I know of is still Ted Harwood's. Published by New Riders, you will find it on Amazon.

One site in addition to TheOtherKiwis list:-

http://www.thinplanet.com.

(and don't forget

http://www.tek-tips.com

;-) - post a question or two in the Citrix solutions forum)

Hope this helps

 

[CitrixEngineer]

...I didn't mean Janacek - I was thinking of something else.

I meant Iacobucci. Ed Iacobucci.

 

[narineh]

Most folks stick with Terminal Services just because the cost of implementing a Citrix System is very high. Terminal Services still has some issues, but I would go with Citrix if I had te money