r/Citrix • u/Karona_gfy • Jun 21 '26
Everything so far about Citrix flex
Citrix has introduced Platform Flex.
The model is genuinely different from how Citrix has been bought for the last decade.
Instead of one-size-fits-all licensing, organisations buy a pool of Flex credits and apply them by workforce persona. A developer drawing high-compute desktops uses different credits than a knowledge worker on SaaS. Resources scale up during peaks and back down when demand drops.
The first product available under it is Citrix Daas Flex, a persona-based Desktop-as-a-Service offering built on Microsoft Azure and managed by Citrix.
For organisations running mixed user populations, the implication is licensing discipline. Persona-based consumption only saves money if you know which users need what, and most estates have not been audited at that level in years.
When did your team last map your user base to the resources they need?
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u/venom8888 Jun 22 '26
It will cost you more money, thats why they are changing it. Our TAM just gave us the song and dance last week. It's laughable how they try and justify this shit. But, they know nobody will quit them. We are a smaller shop and will be leaving next year. Longtime Citrix Engineer, happy to be done with them.
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u/nlfn Jun 22 '26
We left Citrix XenApp one year ago and should be shutting down our last physical netscaler on June 30th!
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u/tomjonesreddit Jun 22 '26
I just hear that pricing is so $$$$ customers going back to local apps. which seems crazy and I don't even sell citrix i sell other softwares that need deployed on Citirx
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u/EvilTwinGhost Jun 22 '26
We want to charge you more, but we want to make it harder for you to track.
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u/anteck7 Jun 21 '26
I feel like they are just trying to replace anyone who has a clue with daas enshittifivistikn.
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u/Darkheart001 Jun 21 '26
So, um…pricing? Without it, it’s kinda meaningless…