Jetro CockpIT BoostIT


Jetro CockpIT / BoostIT

Jetro Platforms' current server-based computing product is CockpIT 3.0. Jetro does not view themselves as a direct competitor to Citrix, Microsoft, or Tarantella. Instead, they focus on creating a "management platform" that allows you to manage your existing environments whether they're Terminal Servers, Citrix MetaFrame servers, or a combination of both.

Jetro uses its own client software that contacts a Jetro server which maintains application lists, server load, user policies, and permissions. Once it determines which server a user should connect to, the Jetro client passes the connection information to the user's standard RDP or ICA client, and the session is launched.

Jetro sells two products: CockpIT and BoostIT. These products are technically 100% identical, with the only difference being how they are licensed. CockpIT adds all of Jetro's capabilities to Terminal Server and RDP environments. BoostIT supports ICA sessions in addition to RDP. Now, here's where it gets interesting. BoostIT is much cheaper than CockpIT. That's right. The product that supports RDP and ICA is much cheaper ($40 per user) than the product that supports RDP only ($160 per user). Jetro's reasoning behind this is that if you need the ICA version, you've already spent enough money on thin client computing licenses, so they give you a break. (Think of it as a "competitive upgrade.") The catch, of course, is that you have to have previously bought a Citrix ICA license for each BoostIT license that you buy, and they require proof of this upon ordering.

Jetro adds some impressive features onto native Terminal Server. In addition to the now "standard" third-party offerings of seamless windows, application publishing, a slick web interface for application access, and application level load-balancing, Jetro's products also allow you to seamlessly publish and manage applications to users regardless of whether they access them via ICA or RDP.




Terminal Services for Microsoft Windows Server 2003(c) Advanced Technical Design Guide
Terminal Services for Microsoft Windows Server 2003: Advanced Technical Design Guide (Advanced Technical Design Guide series)
ISBN: 0971151040
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 126

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