I knew of Tibco from an "Ajax IDE" they built gazilian years ago, from the time when there was a site called Ajaxian. Lol.
Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B
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Re: Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B
#82I just find it fascinating that I can go through my life and see things like this: "[Company I've never heard of] and [Another company I've never heard of], something something, billions and billions of dollars". And these companies and the people who run them probably have a non-trivial impact on my life, if not directly than indirectly. It's just fascinating.
Citrix are pretty ubiquitous in the corporate space. Not as big a deal as they were ten or 15 years ago, but still a huge company that powers a lot of businesses.
At work, I need to use Citrix to check my email on Lotus Notes!
Re: Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B
#83Background on the deal. TIBCO was acquired by Vista Equity Partners 8 years ago and has been a disaster investment. Growth never picked up despite their investments in product, technology, sales and marketing. As a result, TIBCO was stuck selling better software from acquisitions to their existing customer base. Large cap private equity investors like Thoma Bravo, Silver Lake and Blackstone noticed TIBCO's failures m…
Thanks for this succinct analysis - you should start a finance newsletter!
Re: Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B
#84Any old school Amazon-ers here cringing when they hear the name "Tibco"?
Tibco rvd and UDP multicast crushing switch buffers and falling back to UDP unicast to crush them even harder during the ramp up to Christmas.
Re: Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B
#85I never want to touch Citrix again. Dear. God. Their licensing reps are also the shadiest of vendors EVER
Re: Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B
#86Re: Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Citrix originally licensed the technology for the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to Microsoft. RDP was a pared back version of Citrix, and the license terms left Citrix free to sell a with a more fully-featured virtualised desktop product running on top of Windows Server.
Wikipedia says "Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft" and that "[the] Terminal Services Edition of NT 4.0 relied on Citrix's MultiWin technology, previously provided as a part of Citrix WinFrame atop Windows NT 3.51, in order to support multiple users and login sessions simultaneously". Based on this it sounds to me like the protocol itself was the work of Microsoft and that…
I have managed large Citrix farms and if you have the bandwith RDP blows it away. Lot less options and control but with decent bandwith and high settings RDP is pretty nice.
That being said I hear VMware Horizon blows away Citrix too
I will never touch Citrix again.
Re: Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B
#88Background on the deal. TIBCO was acquired by Vista Equity Partners 8 years ago and has been a disaster investment. Growth never picked up despite their investments in product, technology, sales and marketing. As a result, TIBCO was stuck selling better software from acquisitions to their existing customer base. Large cap private equity investors like Thoma Bravo, Silver Lake and Blackstone noticed TIBCO's failures m…
Thanks. Some very deep insights and market knowledge. Impressive.
Re: Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a former Citrix user, I’m a little jealous.
The two worst things about going to work are Citrix and the coffee. WFH only fixes one of them.
Imagine how bad Citrix is as an end user of it. Now imagine having to be the one that sets all that up and maintains it. And has to deal with their support.
Citrix Cloud is also hilariously bad
Re: Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tibco is responsible for Jaspersoft. Jaspersoft is both insanely powerful and will make you want to kill the authors and then yourself. There isn’t really anything else that does what it does though and you can take that statement both ways. I really hate Jaspersoft but unless you work in a certain kind of enterprise environment you can go an entire career without running into it.
Don't worry, it's super extensible! All you have to is write a java class with the right interface, modify a massive spring xml file, and inject your class at the one right place to make everything work! Hope you didn't want documentation on the class interface though. I'm sure you can figure it out from context...
Egads this sounds like Minecraft modding without forge or fabric.