Those of you who have read iPhone J.D. from the beginning (thanks!) know that I am a big fan of Citrix and I am eagerly looking forward to the app that they are writing for the iPhone. In fact, I was using Citrix earlier today. Even though I am currently with my wife's family in New York for the holidays, I was able to fire up the Citrix client on a Mac and connect to my office to revise an appellate brief.
Yesterday there was an article on Infinite Loop -- the portion of the great site Ars Technica that is devoted to all things Apple -- discussing Citrix on the iPhone. The app will come out the first half of 2009 and apparently will be called Citrix Receiver. That article links to this earlier post on a Citrix blog, containing additional details such as this:
The Citrix Receiver for iPhone will not only look and feel native to this platform but it will leverage many of the software and hardware advancements incorporated into this ingenious device. Expect a rich combination of multi-touch gestures, great usage of the iPhone's accelerometer and many more.
If you are looking forward to Citrix on the iPhone like I am, you should check out the Infinite Loop article. Also, you should click here to read all of the posts on the Citrix blog about the iPhone.
Have you tried gotomypc.com?
It is a Citrix service that provides remoting capability through a web browser. I don't know if it relies on any tools/components that are PC specific (Internet Explorer, ActiveX, COM, ... all the bad stuff that makes PC's insecure).
Posted by: Bill Thomason | December 24, 2008 at 08:08 AM
Good thought, Bill. I know that there are VNC clients for the iPhone (such as Mocha VNC) but I haven't tried them out yet. I'm not particularly interested in a solution that requires me to leave my Windows PC at work on and run a VNC server on that computer. I would rather just use the Citrix ICA Client -- what they are now calling Citrix Receiver.
Posted by: Jeffrey Richardson | December 24, 2008 at 02:24 PM