Citrix has now changed their licensing plans due to heated customer and community feedback.
http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2009/10/20/we-did-it-ci trix-modifies-xendesktop-4-license-plans-thank-you-citrix.aspx http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2009/10/20/Thank+you+-+XenDesktop+4+ makes+desktop+virtualization+real+for+a+broader+set+of+use+cases+now! Webster From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 2:29 PM Subject: FYI: Citrix license change Apologies for the wrap: http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2009/10/09/citrix-s-cha nge-to-per-named-user-xendesktop-licensing-are-they-really-screwing-everyone -or-are-people-over-reacting.aspx So basically Citrix is changing the license format from licenses for individual products to a single license. Our reseller informed me of this today. There is a "trade-up" program where you can trade in a single standard license (unnamed) to two named licences. For my agency, this really sucks, and this is no great deal for my agency. I have at least a 1:3 user to license ratio for XenApp, since many users are part-time, or some work-night, others day, and the load and license usage balances out. Now with "named user" licenses we need to purchase a license for every single user. I know part of this is to push XenDesktop. I've looked at it and really can't find a place for it here. As if XenApp isn't already expensive enough, now this. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
