Comments on: Advertising? Or just name calling?

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:51:37 +0000

Ah, I’ve missed the blunt Citrix marketing bs for a while. Thank god they’re back.

I don’t understand your comments, Citrix is the best solution for application deployment, server based computing, server virtualization, VDI, damn they’re the best at everything! Why? Because every other vendor sucks and makes horrible products. So HDX is great …………. because PCoIP sucks and XenServer is great because vSphere is too expensive.

By: Edwin Weijdema

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:44:45 +0000

This one made me laugh, something I really wondered about several weeks back with the launch of XenDesktop, they tagged it with the number 4. Why use the number 4?, they have XenServer on 5 so why not bring it in line with that? Maybe someone @ Citrix felt, VMware View 4 be in the same range as XenDesktop? or didn’t they dare to call it XenDesktop 5 what would have been seeing the Advertisement above more logical?

Bottom line: I think its good that their is competition in the virtual desktop market so innovation goes a lot faster and progress is being made to give our customers a true and great virtual desktop experience.

By: Joe__C

Joe__C — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:30:06 +0000

There are different ways to motivate people. You can draw them towards your product(like a moth to a flame) or you can try to make them run away from something else and hope at least some of them run towards your product.

If they don’t have enough confidence in their product to attract customers to it based on merit then they try to drive them away from the competition and hope some of them notice their product as they pass in the stampede.

By: Alex Muetstege

Alex Muetstege — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:26:52 +0000

I think, when selling, you should use your own strengths instead of the other one’s weaknesses. Tell the world why your solution is the right one. Pointing out what’s wrong in the competitors products actually points the attention towards the competitor, which is actually the thing you try to prevent.

Basically, tell the world why YOU are GOOD, not why the other ones are bad

My two cents..