Unicon is now part of Citrix! I have been using Unicon for our 7K thin clients for over 10 years, it's a Linux based OS and with Scout Cloud Gateway (runs on-prems despite the name) you can manage them remotely via Internet for home users. Great management tool, it's German and it just works. Hopefully Citrix will take care of it! 🤞

That's an interesting acquisition!

Interesting indeed. I wonder what that will do to the existing relationships with other Thin Client/Thin OS partners.... : https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/citrix-buys-thin-client-os-vendor-unicon-in-endpoint-push

"Citrix will take care of it" - don't dig into AppDNA, XenClient, Wrike, Kaviza, Podio, Octoblu, Cedexis, etc,

I thought they left Podio alone - which is mainly how it survived!

my first reaction when I saw the name

I imagine it will be same as ever Citrix CVAD is the core offering - if they can get the whole deal on Citrix tech fine but wouldn't neglect big partners doing other bits of the stack Dell Wyse/IGEL etc in same way embraced VMware/AHV/Hyper-V vs giving XenServer special treatment...

This is an odd acquisition. Is it because Microsoft is making thin client hardware now?

@Marius Sandbu my same first reaction as well.

Is Unicon a big vendor across the pond? Never heard of it in the US. IGEL and Stratodesk are the big vendors that I see.

It's German

It's in the UK but I don't see it often.

Big in German / EU financial - the type of 250k+ Citrix seats, networks of insurance agents/bank branches... also sizeable on big university campuses for terminals.... type of lighthouse sales bigger than channel typically handles

Does anyone know how it compares to IGEL OS in terms of driver/application support etc

My 2 cts - Citrix is focused on retaining ~2000-ish enterprise customers and growing revenue by offering a single, higher-priced SKU with more included features, now incorporating Unicon. Unicon plays a critical role in large Citrix deployments (same for DeviceTrust). If Citrix did acquire Unicon for a reasonable price, it would strengthen their hold on major customers. This seems to be their main strategy. Long-term, they might pursue an IPO or another private equity firm could take over to 're-milk - cow - strategy with maximize returns for investors'. Time will tell. Thoughts?

My only thought is that nothing good ever comes from a private equity firm buying companies like this.

Well - it depends who you ask 🙂 I expect financially CSG will do well this and next years so PE will say "something great came out of this all" ... how long that will work is TBD;

The problem is if you aren't bringing in new customers to take the place of the ones you have now that might be leaving. Your product will die. The people leaving VMWare to other vendors shows that you can't just sit on what you have. So you need to have people in the community letting the world know what you are doing to innovate, what products you are developing or acquiring, so that you can get new lifetime customers. That is something CSG is ignoring.

Totally agree - IMHO Citrix focus isn’t new customers, no community efforts and focus is $$ for PE. Great to have World of EUC so we can help each other and when vendors are smart to read and contribute here.

I think Stratodesk would have been a better purchase than Unicorn, just my $0.02

Anyone already seen the Unicon licences in the portal?

No it's not there yet for me.