Once again this weeks chinwagee needs no introduction – its Doug Brown of the now legendary dabacc.com website. I first came across Doug’s site when I was lowly Citrix instructor – and I’d often point my students towards his site to check is his “Methodology-in-a-Box” documents that would take you through a step-by-step approach to rolling out a Citrix infrastructure. Of course, he’s not stayed still and dabcc.com is still as massive as every and encompasses a vast array of different technologies.

We discussed a range of questions – including and not limited to:

Q1. Last year I heard you had some woes with the iPhone4, and that Apple even sent someone to you to help you out! That’s quite a coup! What became of that? Are you with Android now?

Q2. I see you recently entered the fray in the spat between Madden & Crosby… Laying that too one side – i see your have some strong opinions on client virtualization – care to share them with us?

[When go on to talk about client hypervisor and other stuff at length! From that we drifted of into security and personal data... ]

Q3. If server-based computing is great, do you think VMware needs to develop technology like XenApp, RDS, 2X?

Q4. Is VDI a tactical solution, rather than a strategic one? Did that happen to Citrix MetaFrame/Presentation/XenApp as well?

Q5. Is the PC and local apps pretty much useless with our an internet connection?

[We drift back to the topic of client hypervisor - and if the future it will baked into a PC...]

Q6. Is VDI just a two horse race, and if where up you what would you pick – are you influence by Gatner style analysis…

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