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The most famous expert on application virtualization (mainly Microsoft Terminal Services and Citrix products), Brian Madden, released a podcast about where today VMware and Citrix are and where they are supposed to go in the near future. Here the podcast topics:

• The history of VMware and Citrix, why they got together
• Scalability. Does VMware help? How will 64-bit Windows will change this?
• A brief mention of the kernel memory changes from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003
• How does VMware affect consolidation strategies?
• When should you use VMware with Citrix, when not to?
• VMware ACE: Where can that be used with Citrix? Should you use that for Citrix or just do that natively?
• Citrix Access Gateway and Smart Access
• Future of utilization of servers
• A quick mention of Longhorn’s modular architecture
• Microsoft’s Virtual Server product server is now dead. The next incarnation will be a ESX
• Server-like hypervisor
• Egenera and blades
• Citrix’s Application Isolation Environments and Softricity
• The future of terminal server and what's being built into longhorn
• ICA versus RDP. What value does Citrix provide on top of Terminal Server?
• The future of Citrix in the Longhorn days
• What is Citrix doing with Smart Access?
• What will Netscaler bring to Citrix?
• Moving server-based computing beyond screen scrape technologies with WinFX/Avalon remoting
• The ultimate merger of Terminal Server and IIS
• How SmoothRoaming could get smart about client devicesHow we can move beyond “cut and paste” local and remote application integration with metadata transfers

You can download it here: http://www.brianmadden.com/content/content.asp?id=499