Its a 14-page document that Brian Madden says was developed in concert between Citrix and Microsoft teams, but in reading it I wonder about its real intent. Click here to download the document and read it for yourself.

What gets me about these sorts of feature comparisons is that nowhere do you see elements where Terminal Services actually bests Presentation Server. Only those where the opposite holds true. What you'll also see in the document are numerous references to features that only exist in the Citrix's Enterprise or Platinum versions. What isn't mentioned is the cost associated with those versions. Terminal Services clocks in at a TSCAL per user, but Citrix adds to that another cost per concurrent user. Last I checked, Platinum Edition listed at around $600/CCU.

That's a lot of scratch. The big question is: Is it worth it?

I'd be curious to hear your own analysis. Do you want/need the extra features shown in this document? What is the size of your deployment? Are the features worth the cost?