Re: This morning's Press / MasterTrade

[Jason Greenwood]

Damn reply to headers... =) Hate that reply all thing....

Yup, I do know a LITTLE of the Citrix history but didn't it just get bought by MS?? If so, we can assume they'll embrace and um, extinguish it.

Cheers

J

Mahesh De Silva wrote:

Hi Jason

Cirtix is not all bad, there linux support is
excelent. Me and my co-worker use it on our linux work
stations and is very good. There support for linux is
NZ anyway is great.

You do realise that citrix originaly developed the
multiuser windows system.. (called multi win) which
they sold as product and MS$ bought/licenced it off
them and then developed RDP/terminal services.

Mahesh

  

I hope their network falls over then...serves em
right, Citrix is now 
owned by MS right???? =)

Cheers

J

Lance BLACKLER wrote:

    

Well Jason is probably more correct - the reality
      

is that all of the 
    

desktop PC's at head office are windows machines -
      

I personally have a 
    

win 2000 machine - as are the branch managers PC's
      

- only the branch 
    

counter machines and a couple of other's that I
      

have seen in the 
    

branches run Linux (that is still 300 or so units
      

though).
    

I understand that the HO PC's will be replaced
      

with Citrix terminals 
    

that display a win 2000 desktop and run the usual
      

office MS apps from 
    

the central server.  Most of the people that
      

travel a lot have a 
    

laptop that they plug into a CRT display and
      

keyboard etc in their 
    

office - don't know what will happen to these -
      

they will presumably 
    

get to keep them - also running windows of course.

Lance B






      

From: Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: This morning's Press / MasterTrade
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:33:08 +1300

Unless they are switching to desktop PC's running
        

you know what...but 
    

the citrix terminals seem to allude that this
        

won't happen....
    

Cheers

J

Nick Rout wrote:

        

Well it actually doesn't seem too retrograde, at
          

least you are not
    

falling back into the arms of Bill.


On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:08:44 +1300
Lance BLACKLER
          

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
    

I have some information about that Chris - I
            

work for MasterTrade - 
    

but not in the IT area.

Brief history - MasterTrade was is an
            

Electrical and Plumbing 
    

wholesaler (not just Plumbing as mentioned in
            

the article) - we 
    

also have (retail) bathroom showrooms. 
            

Originally formed by a 
    

merger of NEECO, PDL Sales and A & T Burts -
            

was owned by PDL - who 
    

recently were sold to Schneider Electrical
            

(France) - who in turn 
    

sold MasterTrade to the Crane Group
            

(Australia).  Crane own the 
    

Mico companies in New Zealand as well as Corys
            

Electrical 
    

(wholesaler).  So now they operate MasterTrade
            

and Corys as 2 
    

brands one business and Micos as a separate
            

brand separate business.
    

MasterTrade have over the years (under Neil
            

Helson's direction) 
    

developed a very good in house sales and
            

distribution (unix based) 
    

software - originally running on windows PC's
            

(on the counters) in 
    

an emulator - but more recently the PC's have
            

been running Linux as 
    

mentioned in the article - and the nationwide
            

and branch level PC 
    

networks are also Linux (Redhat).

We also have a AS400 server in our Christchurch
            

head office.
    

Why the change now? - Crane are implementing JD
            

Edwards throughout 
    

the groups business - so that includes us,
            

apparantly we will all 
    

be getting Citrix terminals and as far as I can
            

tell JDE runs from 
    

Sun Solaris servers.  That's as much as I know
            

from brief 
    

discussions with one of our IT staff here, who
            

at this stage 
    

doesn't seem to know exactly what the change
            

entails yet either.
    

Regards

Lance Blackler
Heating Technical Advisor
MasterTrade Corys Ltd








            

From: Christopher Sawtell
              

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: This morning's Press
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:50:22 +1300

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:08, you wrote:


              

heres a copy of the article, which I don't
                

particularly like now 
    

that I
have read it.


                

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2289011a28,00.html
  

Does anybody know why MasterTrade stopped
              

using Linux, when 
    

according to the
art. it was going well?

--
Christopher Sawtell



              

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