Readers Respond
On Tuesday, I
blogged
about Citrix's move to concentrate all North American efforts on one distributor,
Ingram Micro, ending relationships with Alternative Technology, Avnet and Tech
Data. One poster had this response for Craig Stilwell, a vice president whose
explanation of Citrix's reasoning was included in the blog post:
"Well if Craig Stillwell thinks this is a good move for Citrix and
it pans out, he's a hero. But if it doesn't pan out (which historical experience
on this shows otherwise) then [Citrix CEO] Mark T[empleton] will bounce his
a** out the door so fast, people won't even remember him a year from now."
-Anonymous
There were also a flurry of responses to another entry on Tuesday about Microsoft
striking
back against Forrester analyst Thomas Mendel's report about enterprise adoption
problems for Vista, and about Microsoft's new Mojave
Experiment.
"Stand tall Mr. Mendel. It is not always easy stating the truth when
the 800lb gorilla is getting smacked upside the head."
-Anonymous
"I find it very interesting that Microsoft built the Mojave Experiment
site using Adobe Flash, NOT Silverlight. Microsoft continues to push developers
to use increasingly bloated, unworkable, buggy and undocumented software like
Silverlight and Vista. I've been a Microsoft partner for over 10 years, but
no longer."
-Anonymous
"Good name, 'Mojave.' If you're out in the desert, with no other
apps around, then Vista is great. Once you try to actually USE applications
with it...that's when it heads south (into strange foreign lands)."
-Anonymous
Feel free to chime in. Send your thoughts to [email protected].
Posted by Scott Bekker on July 31, 2008