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Running Android on an iPad

First Published on June 3, 2011 - 3,069 Views


I wrote last week about Silicon Valley start-up BlueStacks Systems and its new cross-platform solution that can run Android on top of Microsoft Windows. At the time I suggested that BlueStacks might be an interesting partner for Citrix as a way to extend its reach to supporting Android applications with very little effort.

Well guess what, at the Citrix Synergy keynote last Wednesday Citrix Director of Mobile Technologies Gus Pinto demonstrated Alphonso Lab’s Pulse News for Android running within the Citrix Receiver for Windows running on a HP touch enabled desktop PC.  Watch the video, it’s outstanding.

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2010 in review

First Published on December 1, 2010

At this time of year, it’s only fit and proper to have a post detailing the year in review or offering a list of predictions for the coming year. For the last couple of years I’ve thrown my credibility to the wind by offering a series of very doubtful predictions, but this year I’ve decided to take a look at the year’s events and record those that I think deserve the greatest attention.

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Enterprise Applications and the iPad

First Published on August 4, 2010


Almost as soon as news of the iPad was first leaked technology pundits have been attempting to position it as the next big enterprise computing platform. Phrases like “fundamentally transformative computing experience that will meet the needs of many business users” are common, as are articles like this one from TechRepublic ”Apple iPad is already breaking through in the enterprise“ outlining some early enterprise deployments.  Given what Apple’s chief operating officer Tim Cook had to say  ”in the first 90 days, we already have 50% of the Fortune 500 that are deploying or testing the iPad” this optimism might easily be taken at face value.

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Preempting Apple

First Published on March 15, 2010

While vendors such as Citrix and Wyse have worked hard to foster the perception that the iPhone has what it takes to be a desktop virtualization end-point, the limitations imposed by the 3.5 inch display are painfully visible. Now with the iPad just around the corner screen size is no longer a problem, but this doesn’t mean that Windows on the iPad is assured of success.  Setting aside the obvious ergonomic limitations that the lack of physical keyboard imposes, perhaps the most significant shortcoming of the iPad the lack of support for multitasking.

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Predictions for 2010 – Apple

First Published on December 11, 2009

Back in May at the Synergy conference Citrix demonstrated XenClient running Vista side by side with OS X on a Mac Book. At the time the only way to do this was by breaking Apple's OS X desktop EULA, running the server edition of OS X or by the liberal use of smoke and mirrors. 

Now with XenClient and CVP both getting closer to launch, we have to move beyond the possibility of smoke and mirrors and start to think about how to do this for real.

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Just how did Citrix get OS X and Windows onto that MacBook?

First Published on May 13, 2009 - 1,361 Views

One of the technical highlights of the Citrix Synergy Keynote was Ian Pratt’s demonstration of an Apple MacBook Pro running Windows and OS X side by side on top of a beta of the Project Independence Type I Hypervisor (now XenClient). Running XenClient on a vanilla PC is huge by itself, but for organizations that are attempting to marry the needs to deliver a corporate Windows based desktop with the desire of individual employees to own an Apple laptop, this will be as close to nirvana as we are likely to get.

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