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MetaFrame Application Server for Windows is Citrix’s server-based computing solution for Microsoft’s Windows Terminal Server. MetaFrame incorporates Citrix’s Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) protocol and provides a high- performance, cost-effective, and secure way to deploy, manage, and access business-critical applications throughout an enterprise — regardless of client device or network connection. With this innovative software, enterprises can:

uBring server-based computing to heterogeneous computing environments and provide access to the most powerful 32-bit Windows-based applications, regardless of client hardware, operating platform, network connection, or protocol

uOffer enterprise-caliber server and client management that allows IS professionals to scale, deploy, and support applications from a single location

uProvide a seamless user experience at the desktop, delivering a wide variety of applications with exceptional performance that is independent of bandwidth

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Server-based computing is a logical, efficient evolution of today’s networking environments that gives organizations a way to extend resources, simplify application deployment and administration, and lower the total cost of application ownership.

With server-based computing, applications are deployed, managed, supported, and executed completely on a server. Client devices, whether “fat” or “thin,” have instant access to business-critical applications on the server—without application rewrites or downloads. Because server-based computing works within the current computing infrastructure and standards, it is rapidly becoming the most reliable way to reduce the complexity and total cost of enterprise computing.