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I find it fascinating you went through your life so far without knowing about citrix.

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As a former Citrix user, I’m a little jealous.

This is the proper response haha. I'd pay $16.5B to never use it again.

Haha.. As much as I disliked it, if someone offered me that much money to use it, sure, I would do so with a grin.

The two worst things about going to work are Citrix and the coffee. WFH only fixes one of them.

Imagine how bad Citrix is as an end user of it. Now imagine having to be the one that sets all that up and maintains it. And has to deal with their support.

Citrix Cloud is also hilariously bad

Throw some crystal reports and a “coffee bag” (as in like the tea bag) for good measure and a dash of Sharepoint and DCOM. Now we are talking. DAO recordsets too (no not DAO as in Ethereum!)

Crystal Reports! <shudder> that name hasn’t been mentioned in my house (or thought about) in nearly 2 decades.

Ever want to use crystal reports to generate scannable paper correspondence for tens of thousands of businesses in a single job? The state of Wisconsin sure did!

I was going to comment when the Citrix Workspace updater popped up even though I explicitly asked not to be notified about updates, a setting that is hidden by the worst settings menu I've ever seen on a Mac app (there seem to be ways to stop the app to run in the background, but why does it even need to? It's not like 2 seconds of startup time will make any difference with the latency I experience working with the product)

Anyhow, I was so happy Sharepoint was dropped for OneDrive, a slightly less bad product (and same with Teams/Skype)

DCOM. The Guantanamo Bay of distributed computing.

Still not as bad as QuickTime.

Coffee is one of those things for me where no matter how bad it is, it's still good.

If it's brown, liquid and caffeinated then I'm happy. Especially if I'm drinking it first thing in the morning.

Not that I don't enjoy good coffee. But my bar is pretty low.

If you didn't have a old-style corporate job, how would you encounter Citrix?

Because it is a very well known software company. I have never used Citrix, but to me its as a name the same way as VMWare, SAP, EMC, Salesforce and Intuit is.

Again, all those are old-style enterprise software. If you didn't work in a legacy corporate environment, you'd never encounter them.

I think anyone who has ever had a sales or support job has to deal with Salesforce in one form or the other.

Umm. If you file taxes with a computer, you’re using Intuit.

If you have a datacenter, it has a good shot of running some VMware.

If you run logistics at almost any medium sized or bigger company, you’re using SAP or Oracle.

If you have a group of employees that sell things, Salesforce is common.

This is the software that literally runs the world. If you’re not familiar with it, then you’re ignorant about how the world works. Nothing wrong with that of course, but I don’t understand the pride in it. Especially on HN, where Hackers tend to be curious.

Intuit has no relevance if you don’t live in the US

Turbotax sure (includes Canada), but Quickbooks is used globally.

There are many countries (the UK I can say with certainty, but I believe also the EU), where no 3rd party software is needed to complete a tax return for a typical person.

Either it's completely automatic (like most PAYE employees in the UK), or the tax system is simplified to point where it's a simple form to complete.

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