Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 May 1997 16:02:58 +0100 (WET DST) | From | "Carlo E. Prelz" <> | Subject | Re: Solaris sources |
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On Thu, 1 May 1997, Troy Morrison wrote:
> I can't confirm this, but I remember reading or being told quite a while > ago that Citrix had purchased an NT-source license. It was the basis > for their product, which basically hacked at the NT kernel and made it > multi-user over the network (as an application server). When you bought > the Citrix product, as I recall, you got a "new" NT kernel that would > let you connect up over the network and actually "log in" to NT from > several desktops.
From Byte, April 1997, pages 72-73:
"... However, there's a multiuser version of NT available from a third party: Citrix Systems. Citrix is a relatively small company that enjoys an unusual relationship with Microsoft. Microsoft owns a piece of Citrix and sits on Citrix's board of directors. More important, Microsoft has granted Citrix a source-code license and a distribution license for Windows NT Server. Nobody else has such a license. It allows Citrix to modify NT, resell it to customers, and sublicense it to other companies. Citrix has used this license to create a multiuser version of NT Server known as WinFrame, which Citrix's sublicensees modify. So, while Microsoft denounces NCs [Network Computers] in public, it supports even thinner clients than those championed by Oracle and Sun."
Now, we may think to allow Bill Gates to sit on Linux's board of directors... :-)
Carlo
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