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

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

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

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

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

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