Why are you not taking a look at Citrix's web site (http://www.citrix.com/) You might find some useful information there.
13/11/2001 17:17:37, "Haseltine, Celeste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Joe, > >Simple answer is money. This company uses an outdated frame relay >system to >communicate between the different buildings. The main building does >have a >T1 coming into it for company internet access, but he does not have the >servers (hardware) and the bandwidth to run a true 24/7 web site, nor >does >he have the personnel to support a web site. Since he is hurting for >money >(as everyone else is), he wants to avoid either purchasing the hardware >necessary to host his own internet site, or the costs of leasing the >server >space with a large company such as Verizon. He also wants to avoid any >further IT costs (I am a contract programmer, and once I leave, he plans >to >letting the site continue to run without maintenance until he is forced >to >modify the site). Therefore, his on-site manufacturering engineer, who >does >know some things about servers, suggested that he use his existing >license >for Citrix to "host" this web site for his outside customers. Thus >totally >defeating the purpose of creating a web site, and paying me for the >resulting product. > >As you stated, this company is NOT a technically savvy company, it is a >small manufacturer (about 4 million/yr). The owner is about 60, and >uses >the computer on his desk as a paperweight (he prints all his emails out, >and >then returns his answer to the emails by telephone, or by writing his >response on the printed out email). Despite his lack of technical >understanding, he is a nice guy. It's just that I think they are making >a >bad decision, and one that they will expect me to fix for them when the >idea >doesn't work. Plus I have to "politically" step around his >manufacturing >engineer, who thinks he knows a lot more about networks and programming >than >he really does. So I want to talk them out of it, but I know very >little >about Citrix, how it works, and what potential problems he may face by >going >this route. That's why I posted this question. If anyone can see >potential >problems with this idea, I would appreciate the feedback. > >Celeste > >-----Original Message----- >From: Joe Cheng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:53 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Anyone ever tried running a web app (JSP) using Citrix 6.0? > > >>> My boss, who doesn't really know or understand anything about web >applications, has decided to save some money on a JSP/Java web >application >that we have developed as an intranet site, by setting up the site to >run as >an internet site, but using Citrix to make it available to people >outside >the company. << > >hahahahaha... > >First of all, that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard. :) > >Your users all have Internet Explorer installed on their desktops. So >he's >going to have them use Internet Explorer to access the Citrix client, >which >will allow them to remotely control another copy of Internet >Explorer--this >second copy being the one that resides on your network--which will then >make >requests to your web application. > >This, instead of simply having the first copy of Internet Explorer make >requests to your web application!!! > >IE => Citrix => IE => webapp >IE => webapp > >Which do you think will have the lower TCO? Which you do you think will >have lower latencies? Which will provide the better user experience? >Which >will not damage your credibility as a (presumably) technology-savvy >corporation? > >(Answer: the second one) > >If you're really in a pinch, why not move your web server outside the >firewall and just secure your private webapps using other means (which >you'd >have to do anyway, even in the ridiculous Citrix scenario). > >-jmc > >======================================================================== >=== >To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff >JSP-INTEREST". >For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST >DIGEST". >Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com > >======================================================================== >=== >To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff >JSP-INTEREST". >For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST >DIGEST". >Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". 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