I would like a minute of silence for all sysadmins working in healthcare. Having to deal with COVID on top of a Citrix infrastructure (if it can be called that) must be... well need I say more. Working with Citrix.

(PS: I'm joking, I hope the product has become stellar. It very much was not back in the day when I had 200 users on it).

Perhaps my choice of words was unwise.

My experience in the early 2000's supporting enterprises with network attached storage was they started moving away from Citrix to the VM/VNC solutions often from VMWare. At the same time Citrix started buying a bunch of different companies to expand into other markets.

That people still have to use it is a testament to this architecture pattern's resiliency in face of systemic challenges :-)

Some things just won’t die. Even if they should perhaps