By artarmon42 | 1 Comment
Last updated: Wednesday, January 31, 2007

With a long career in IT Management, GotoMyPC has alwasy been the arch-enemy. Any application that allows an external system to bypass corporate firewalls inevitably gets the “shoot first, figure it out later” treatment.

With me being overseas, and still needing to access my PC in Vegas I needed a solution. GotoMyPC (which is on the top of the “shoot first” list of every IT organization I’ve ever worked at) was my first and only choice:

• It obviously had enough marketshare: otherwise business poeple wouldn’t be begging their IT for it
• It obviously worked well: otherwise IT wouldn’t be so fearful of it

Rather than giving an over-simplified “dummies” review or a overly-complicated “techies” review, I’ll just summarize my findings after a few days of use:

• It does everything their marketing blurb suggests
• The installation is quick and simple. Although I wish they wouldn’t use Java (I just hate the fact that the Java run time environment keeps popping up, seemingly needing to upgrade every week, and tries to subliminally make me buy Sun stuff).
• It uses a Citrix client (for the techies, nothing else needs to be said after that endorsement)

As long as I have to access my machine remotely, GotoMyPC is a simple and cheap solution that’s technically sound.

Oh, and a word to my IT breathren. Yes, GotoMyPC still needs to be at the top of that arch-enemy list

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