Citrix vs EMCO Software

Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational software company founded in 1989 that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software-as-a-service, and cloud computing technologies. The company began by developing remote access products for Microsoft operating systems. It licensed source code from Microsoft and has been in partnership with the company throughout its history. Citrix came to prominence in the 1990s as a leader in thin client technology. Through several acquisitions in the mid-2000s, the company expanded into server and desktop virtualization, as well as cloud and Infrastructure as a Service.

EMCO is a software development company founded in 2001 and headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland. It develops network management software used for automation of remote administration, network audit, remote software deployment, network monitoring, permissions audit and power management tasks in corporate networks. EMCO provides commercial solutions and freeware tools for automation of network administration tasks and remote management of Windows computers. The company products are implemented as Windows desktop applications with a graphical user interface. They are designed to be installed on servers or administrator desktops and used for centralized network management. The IT staff working with those applications must have an administrative access to the network computers in order to manage them remotely. EMCO products rely on the Microsoft network infrastructure to perform remote management operations, thus allowing management of computers within a local network only. Remote management access to computers via the Internet is not provided.