Vmware View vs Citrix Xendesktop ?

[ndvmwaremdur]

I have been demoing both products and until View came out I was hand down Citrix. Now I am in a little quandry as it seems View has better audio and video then the citix solution but not consistent. For example if I play audio from espn.com it will be really choppy. Now from citrix it will play what ever I throw at it but will seem like it is scratchy and hear alot of "s" on words. Has anyone else done demos and found out things? Currently we use citrix presentation server to present apps to wan locations so we are familiar with ica and wondering if that is where we should stay as for protocol.

[Rodos]

Are you using the MMR extensions? What codecs are you using, is it one of MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4 part2, WMV 7/8/9, WMA, AC3, MP3?

When you are using ESPN, is that coming over flash or through some from of stream on a supported protocol? VMware and other players, such as wise, should be releasing support for media in flash early next year hopefully. They were all talking about it at VMworld.

Remember XenDesktop is NOT ICA, its PortICA and has less features.

The protocol space is certainly a hot area/topic right now.

Rodos

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