Citrix Unveils XenDesktop 4 to the Public- Don’t Miss This Webinar
October 15th, 2009Last week UltraLevel posted one of the first Citrix XenDesktop 4 announcements released by Citrix. Nine days and two NDA partner webinars later, we’re convinced that you won’t want to miss the first public XenDesktop 4 webinar for Citrix customers scheduled on October 20th. I don’t want to ruin the surprise, but get ready for a few bombshells in regards to major product feature and licensing changes – who, Citrix? They never do that, right?
Seriously though, I think that the changes will yield great benefit in most scenarios. First of all, XenDesktop edges out XenApp as the new Citrix flagship product although it will include “all of the features of XenApp”. In order to align with an enterprise-wide desktop usage model, XenDesktop 4 will now be licensed on a per named user basis rather than concurrent connection. Citrix will be offering special incentives for current XenApp customers that want to upgrade their licenses to XenDesktop 4.
It’s no secret that Citrix has been known to borrow a page or two from Microsoft’s play book from time to time, and named user licensing has got to be one of the most significant Microsoft alignments to date. It will make it much simpler to plan for and manage a desktop virtualization initiative. Customers will purchase a XenDesktop named named user license and a Microsoft VECD license for every user, hence the convergence of XenApp and XenDesktop (although XenApp still lives as a separate standalone product, but that’s another post).
Calling all Citrix customers! Register for the Citrix XenDesktop 4 public debut webinar on Oct 20th.
