Microsoft Acquires Calista Technologies

re: Microsoft Acquires Calista Technologies

Stuart Cowen — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:12:35 GMT

This is great news and the next question is if there's a timeline for the integration of Calista into Remote Desktop? :)

http://brianmadden.com/news/1572

TrackBack — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:26:20 GMT

re: Microsoft Acquires Calista Technologies

Patrick Rouse — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:33:28 GMT

Additionally, is this only going to be available for Vista and Server 2008 RDP hosts, and what will the client requirements be?

re: Microsoft Acquires Calista Technologies

Manlio Vecchiet [MSFT] — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:16:47 GMT

We are in the process of evaluating the integration technical issues and we have not set a timeline yet, though we will do our best to integrate as soon as possible.

The details regarding product delivery are not finalized and disclosed yet, but Calista will be a strong component of our platform.

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Ryan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:17:18 GMT

By chance, will we see true multi-monitor support coming as a result of this (or other recent developments)? Dual monitor setups are becoming quite popular these days....

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worthware — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:44:39 GMT

Great news and congratulationans to Neil, Calista Technologies and Microsoft. We strongly beleive that in general the RDP protocol and its potential has been overlooked and under estimated in contrast to Citrix for example and this exciting development is welcome news. Being new to this blog can someone please point us in the right direction where we could post a question regarding using Windows 2003 Server & Terminal Services & RDP vs Citrix for a deployment of a windows desktop application for 12 thousand users. Thanks in advance and once again Calista acquisition just a super move for all parties and wonderful news for the indusrty.

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NoPD — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:13:23 GMT

Great news but I`m not sure how long does it takes to intergrate with terminal services and RDP protocol.

It took so much time to launch Softgrid as a Microsoft products.

Speed is ths most important issue nowadays.

re: Microsoft Acquires Calista Technologies

Stewart Levin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:58:33 GMT

For Worthwhile --

Brian madden is a good site for rdp vs citrix comparisons.

http://www.expand.com shows how you can accelerate both citrix (ICA) and RDP traffic over your WAN in the meantime. However to take full advantage you need to experience congestion on your links.

re: Microsoft Acquires Calista Technologies

Mark — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:10:31 GMT

Worthware - 12 Thousand Users? Better off using Citrix. TS alone doesn't scale to those kind of numbers, given the size of environment required. That goes for TS 2008 as well.

You might also want to read this - Citrix Publishes FAQ on Microsoft Application Virtualization and Citrix XenApp (formerly Presentation Server) Working Together - in the February 2008 archives.

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Patrick Rouse — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:17:53 GMT

The scaleability is not really limited by number of users, but by the complexity of the environment, i.e. number of applications, users with different requirements, non-Windows clients, multiple farms....

For this many users, unless they're all using the same applications, looking at a 3rd party management suite like Citrix XenApp, Quest Virtual Access Suite or Ericom would probably be wise.

Patrick Rouse

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

Sr. Sales Engineer, Western USA & Canada

Quest Software, Provision Networks Division

Virtual Client Solutions

(619) 994-5507

http://www.provisionnetworks.com

re: Microsoft Acquires Calista Technologies

Steven Craig — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:48:50 GMT

We are looking to use vmware, vista and wyse windows xp embedded thin clients, would this technology be available to us?

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