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Brian Madden published a 1-hour podcast where him and 4 distinguished guests evaluate recent Microsoft acquisition of Softricity. During the podcast speakers touched several aspects, with an high focus on Citrix as usual:

• What this means for Citrix in the short term
• How the Softricity technology can help Microsoft sell copies of Office
• That Citrix needs to acquire a WAN optimization provider
• How Microsoft can use Softricity to facilitate Windows grid computing
• What Citrix should do with Project Tarpon
• How Citrix is competing with companies like Cisco and Juniper, and how Citrix could be better positioned then them
• What this means for Microsoft SMS and Altiris
• How desktop application deployment and server-based computing technologies are converging

The most interesting thing is that among guests there is Steig Westerberg, CEO of Stream Theory, which filed a lawsuit against Softricity, immediately after the Microsoft acquisition news. Listen to it here.