Performance Enhancement Debacle!

What will happen to visionapp’s Gold medals?

Industry leader visionapp is facing the media today amid a firestorm of accusations. After winning a gold medal in the User Productivity event and sweeping the Customization Relay, visionapp Workspace Management (vWM) has been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs.

In July 2008, chief technologist Rick Dehlinger bragged to customers that vWM was like “Citrix® Web Interface on steroids.”

Indeed, the gold medals in both events were awarded to visionapp, based on vWM’s ability to support Citrix XenApp, streaming, Microsoft TS, and even local apps. In addition, users and admins can customize dozens of elements in vWM, changing how the Workspace is presented to each user.

In a prepared statement, the IOC reported, “We began to suspect vWM when we discovered that everything could be managed from the same console as other visionapp products. Then we found out that vWM can support content in different languages without requiring separate web servers!”

A vWM customer who wished to remain anonymous, said, “I’m not sure how vWM can do everything it can do without some sort of unfair competitive advantage.” The customer added, “Steroids or no steroids, you can take my vWM when you pry it out of my cold, dead hand.”

I’ll post more when I know more…

Gold medal in user productivity!

Wow, what a fantastic day in Beijing.

Our visionapp Workspace Management software won the Gold in 2 — count ‘em, 2 — events: User Productivity, and the Customization Relay (along with teammates Server Management and Control Center).

It’s not Michael Phelps or anything, but with 4 years of training, hard work, and updates, we could overwhelm London and sweep the software events in ‘12.

I’m not sure what was more impressive for the judges: the users’ ability to customize languages? the support for Citrix, TS, streaming and local apps on the same interface? Whatever it was, the visionapp anthem never sounded so sweet. And our customers have never had an easier way to customize and enhance Citrix® Web Interface.

Nothing can stop us now. Nothing.

visionapp buys iQurious!

visionapp has successfully completed its purchase of iQurious Corporation to create visionapp North America. Since 2006, iQurious has been the exclusive distributor of visionapp products in North America. Going forward, we will be doing business as visionapp NA, Inc.

visionapp was launched in 2001, and has built relationships with customers such as DaimlerChrysler, L’Oreal, Barclays Bank, and many government, finance, and manufacturing customers.

“visionapp’s expanded presence in North America will be positive for Citrix customers,” said Bill Burley, VP Product Management, Citrix Systems. “Citrix and visionapp are partnered to help customers deliver all Windows applications. The level of automation that visionapp provides for Citrix farms truly augments XenApp’s management capabilities and helps reduce the cost of managing and delivering virtualized applications.”