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by Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld

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By the first moiety of 2009, Citrix will make its XenDesktop and XenApp client and server software for remote access to Windows applications available for the iPhone.

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“We expect to have it sooner rather than later,” said Chris Fleck, vice president of Solutions Development at Citrix .

Fleck said the partnership is addressing an “unbelievable market demand” for such a product. Requests have become the number-one topic of discussion on its blog site.

Citrix XenApp virtualizes an individual application, be it Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Excel, or SAP, allowing users to run those applications on a client immediately from a XenApp server hosted with a Windows application like SAP.

XenDesktop provides access to a centrally hosted desktop, in specific a user’s desktop on a remote server.

“Your not notched XP or Vista desktop and all your apps are available in that virtual desktop with completely the inherent security and manageability that is currently available on remote desktops now,” declared Fleck.

Similar Citrix technology is profitable for Windows Mobile devices and devices running the Symbian operating system.

However, in the case of the iPhone, Citrix has tweaked the XenApp and XenDesktop technology so that it can leverage the uncommon features and capabilities of iPhone, such as be in contact gestures, pinch and pull, zoom, and pan.

“What it does makes applications that were designed for a full-screen desktop usable on small form factor,” noted Fleck.

According to Fleck it will make available the entire world of a half-million Windows applications.

Citrix developers worked with Apple to design the iPhone version of the Xen App and Desktop in brotherhood to preserve as much of iPhone’s unique capabilities as feasible. For example, although an attempt application corpse unvaried, users accessing that application on the iPhone will be able to use iPhone’s Accelerometer technology to change screen view from portrait to rural scene to help provide visibility, usability, and navigability.

InfoWorld has learned exclusively that Citrix is also addressing those unique applications that demand special key entries and special function keys.

In soundness care for model, Citrix is moving and meeting with hospital representatives and freedom from disease care ISVs like McKesson that currently use Citrix for secluded interview to applications on thin clients and desktop appurtenances for the iPhone.

Later in the year, Citrix have a mind also announce tools that will give developers the turn. to take Microsoft Visual Basic and custom corporate applications written in Visual Studio and modify the sieve resolution to fit natively on a small screen, be it the three-and-a-half-inch iPhone screen or screens on other handheld devices.

“You will be able to pick and choose the screens and the text and the buttons you are most likely use. So if you don’t want to use pinching and panning, the beauty of that is you are keeping the same end back-end infrastructure and work across any mobile device,” said Frick.