The Citrix ICA Client within the ProGear platform will offer a mobile, wireless experience, with constant access to information and applications running on Citrix MetaFrame servers over wireless connections. Users of Citrix ICA technology can now access critical business applications, Internet content and personal information management while away from their desks on a powerful, lightweight, touch screen, portable tablet.
SONICblue will demonstrate the ProGear and Citrix solution at Citrix iForum(TM) 2001, taking place Oct. 29 Nov. 1 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida. ProGear can be viewed at the Unplugged Pavilion, which is part of Citrix iForum. The ProGear on display will demonstrate mobile connectivity on a Microsoft Windows platform.
Cost-effective mobile computing requires reliable, powerful wireless devices like ProGear running state-of-the-art and legacy business applications, said Sooah Kwon, vice president, business to business, SONICblue. Citrix solutions empower portable wireless users by providing seamless access to business applications customarily reserved for desk use only. With Citrix, doctors can produce real-time patient information bedside and assembly line managers can monitor the performance of equipment while in a warehouse. Anyone who seeks mobility and constant access to their critical systems bundled in a lightweight, touch-screen tablet should consider a ProGear and Citrix solution.
Citrix is very pleased to welcome SONICblue into the Citrix family of device manufacturers, said Linda Erton, Citrix director of business development, wireless. ProGear is an exciting multi-functional computing platform, and we are happy to be working with SONICblue in bringing rich interactive applications to the wireless market.
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