I think this is irrelevant
Profile management is key for any VDI project and there are plenty of solutions out there, I don’t think VMWare needed to do anything in this space.
Some of the rationale for Citrix over VMWare have diminished over the last few year but it has been around the Remote Desktop protocols not Profile Management.
VMWare used to be only RDP only but they have now licensed Teradici PCOIP that now works with RDSH Sessions (Basically the same as XenApp) but VMWare don’t own it. So they are depended on a third party to compete and at any time the relationship between them could break down which is a risk.
When you compare protocols head to head HDX vs PCOIP, HDX is better over the WAN, given the prices are a fag paper apart and Citrix have been doing this for 25 years + and add in that Citrix have the Netscaler it is a better all-round solution.
I will worry for Citrix if VMWare were to acquire F5 and Teridici then that’s it, they are the same as Citrix.
Brett Loveday
Biting the hand that feeds IT
