Hiring a non-tech person for a CTO

Citrix has gone and hired a new CTO
For me I’m seeing another business person at Citrix in charge of the technical direction, not someone that has a strong basis of engineering and technology.
Maybe I’m judging MBA’s harshly, though they are bred and trained to aim for sales and revenue.  Engineering backgrounds aim for better products [...]

Posted on September 29, 2009 at 2:49 am by iguy · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Citrix vs VDI/View – Round 1

Recently my company has gone through this huge architectural discussion/debate around using Citrix versus using VDI.   It has been rather entertaining to say the least.   I’ve met with the architect that’s attempting to put together a comparision document on a direction to go.
Some background… We’ve worked to get Citrix to run our critical home grown [...]

Posted on December 3, 2008 at 5:30 pm by iguy · Permalink · 2 Comments
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