It says (those?) five things in the body of email and urges to download something called “VDI Comparison Kit”, which evidently talks about these issues in more details.

Well, here are the five things mentioned in the email:

* 10X lower bandwidth requirement for LAN or WAN
* Unmatched user experience on any device
* Unique performance monitoring of desktops
* Scalable, single image management
* Lowest TCO with both hosted and streamed desktops

While I haven’t (yet) read about the explanations behind these claims and thus cannot comment on their validity, I can only say that it would be interesting if Citrix would compare their solution to others as well (like Quest vWorkspace); I bet that at least some of the things mentioned do not hold up water (TCO comes to mind as a first thing, knowing general level of Citrix pricing) in that comparison.. The 10X bandwidth claim also sound quite incredible as a blanket statement.

Another interesting point is that Citrix openly compares themselves with the competitor, this is something that tech companies generally do not seem to do. Yes, they usually have internal/with restricted distribution documents for that purpose but not so often in the public.

Well, maybe I have to download the kit and see what sort of adjusted truths I can find from there. As we all very well know, VDI is still far from being cost-effective solution [as centralization technology] so it’ll be interesting to see how they spin the story this time.