Terminal Server/Citrix XenApp alternative?

Question

Is there something less costly than Citrix XenApp and something better than Windows TS?

The industry seems to be dominated by citrix.

I'm currently using Windows 2000 Server Terminal Server, but now I have to switch to something better because of performance/color issues.

I'm faced with 2 options:
1) Upgrade to Windows 2008 Server + TS (now has App publishing i think?)
2) Get Citrix XenApp

Any suggestions or anything I'm not aware of?

Solution 1

TSPlus

Terminal Services Plus

tsplus.net - Been using them and it's been great.

Solution 2

Graphon have a product named Go-Global. They use their own technology, and you don't have to pay TSE cals. You can even use an XP machine to log many users at the same time.

http://www.graphon.com/content/view/9/9/

They use less bandwidth than TSE, but a bit more than Citrix. They provide client for MacOSX and Linux too If you are interested, i have a contact there

Solution 3

Check Winflector (www.winflector.com). It is an alternative to Citrix XenApp, does not use Terminal Services/RDP. There's a free version for 2 users licensed for commercial use aswell.

Comments

[joeqwerty]

What performance and color issues are you having?

[Atlas]

Hi Mathieu, does GraphOn have trials of their software?

[Atlas]

what is the pricing of graphon?

[Mathieu Chateau]

sure, they have trial. Price is a bit higher than TSE cal i guess, but as with all editors, price is lower when quantity raise up

[Mathieu Chateau]

i found public price (no tse cal to buy): planet-europe.fr/swreg.html to get trial, feed this form (link to download received by mail): planet-europe.fr/telechargement.html

[Atlas]

I left my contact details on their website 5 days ago, still no response from them.

[Alan B]

I just had a Webex demo with them last week. It looks pretty good, essentially works in a similar way to Citrix/TS except uses their own protocol and not RDP, so no TS or Citrix licencing. You can use a web browser client, on Windows, Mac or Linux, or Sun and others. They have a Windows Mobile client and an iPhone client imminent.