PeteDotCom -> Networking -> Networking -> About Citrix ->   Citrix is a revolutionary networking system made by a company called Praxis. In a nutshell Citrix works by taking most of the processing away from your pc and does the work at the server (mind you it would be a very powerful server). What this means is that under a citrix network, the processing part of most things you do such as writing a letter in word, doing calculations in excel etc, would be done by the server. The benefit of having the sever do all the work via thin client network, is the reduction in cost of marinating and upgrading the network, because currently every few years employers are forced to upgrade their office computers to take advantage of the more power hungry software (I don't want to name any names....microsoft... opps). By taking all the processing to the sever via a thin client network, this eliminates the need to upgrade individual office computers and instead only the server will be upgraded as needed. I think it is claimed by citrix that by taking the processing to the server, the user can get along fine on a 386x computer, which sounds pretty good. (*** in the contexts of this page, the use of the word "server" can also mean "fileserver"***) Citrix uses the thin client technology. A quick explanation of how thin client works: When you type or move your mouse you send a very "small" piece of information down your network cable to your office fileserver computer. The fileserver then processes your input and send back a picture of the result, either letters appearing in a document or the mouse pointer moving across the screen, for display on your screen. These screen signals are very small and travel at lightening speed through your network cables, too fast for you to notice any kind delay between your input and the screen display. More info on Citrix: The motto of Citrix is Any, Any, Any. Any Platform Ordinary Windows PCs, Apple Macs, Linux and a few other exotic operating systems will all run the Citrix software. Any Protocol However your network structure is set up and whatever language it is speaking (Ethernet, NetBui, IPX etc.) the Citrix client will work equally well. Any Application All programs that will work on your Windows NT server will work on your desktop PCs running the Citrix client software.