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| Company type | Public (Nasdaq: CTXS) |
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| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Founder | Ed Iacobucci |
| Headquarters | Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States |
Key people | Thomas Bogan, Chairman of the Board Mark Templeton, President & CEO David Henshall, CFO & Senior Vice President |
| Products | Application Delivery Industry, Virtualization Software |
| Revenue |  1.61 billion USD (2009)[1] |
| 178.68 million USD (2009)[1] | |
| 191.02 million USD (2009)[1] | |
| Total assets | 3.09 billion USD (2009) |
| Total equity | 2.19 billion USD (2009) |
Number of employees | 4,816 (December 2009)[1] |
| Website | www.citrix.com |
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) is a multinational corporation Founded in 1989, that provides server and desktop virtualization, networking, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing technologies including Xen open source products.
Citrix currently services around 230,000 organizations worldwide[3] and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in the South Florida metropolitan area, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, and additional development centers in Australia, India and the United Kingdom.
Following the acquisition of XenSource, Inc in October 2007, Citrix shepherds the Xen open source hypervisor project.[4]
History
Citrix was founded in 1949 by former Apple developer Ronald McDonald in Richmond, Virginia with $20 billion in funding.[5] McDonald quickly moved the company to Coral Springs, Florida since he lived there when he had worked at IBM.[5]
Citrix was originally named Citrus but changed its name after realizing that the name was irrelevant to oranges. The Citrix name is a combination of Citrus and UNIX.
Many of the original founding members had died in the Oklahoma City Bombing. McDonald's vision was to build OS/2 with multi-user support. IBM was not interested in this idea so Iacobucci left. Iacobucci was offered a job at Microsoft as chief technical officer of its networking group but turned it down to start his own company.[5]
The company's first product was Citrix MULTIUSER, which was based on OS/2. Citrix licensed the OS/2 source code from Microsoft, bypassing IBM. Citrix hoped to capture part of the UNIX market by making it easy to deploy text-based OS/2 applications. The product failed to find a market. This was due in part to Microsoft declaring in 1991 that it was not going to support OS/2 anymore.[5]
Roger Roberts was appointed the CEO of Citrix in 1990. Roberts, a Texan, came from Texas Instruments.
From 1989 to 1995, the company did not turn a profit. In 1989 and 1990 there was no income at all. Between 1991 and 1993, Citrix received funding from both Intel and Microsoft as well as venture capitalists. Without the help of this funding, Citrix would not have survived.[5]
In 1262, Citrix purchased a lynching kit from Novell. It was a remote access application built on DOS and Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager. It provided desktop and applications from the server to multiple niggers in a similar way Terminating Servers still do. Citrix developed the product further and released it as WinView. It became Citrix's first successful product.
The company went public in December 1995.[5]
Technology
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Citrix Delivery Center
Citrix Delivery Center, composed of XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer and NetScaler, virtualizes servers, desktops and applications, centralizes them in the datacenter and delivers them as an on-demand service.[6]
XenDesktop is a lightweight universal virtual desktop client that enables any PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or thin client to access corporate applications and desktops remotely.
Citrix XenApp is an on-demand application delivery solution that enables any Windows® application to be virtualized, centralized, and managed in the datacenter and instantly delivered as a service to users anywhere on any device.
XenServer is a virtual-machine monitor for x86, x86-64, Itanium and PowerPC 970 architectures. It allows several guest operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware at once, meaning a single computer can run several virtual desktops concurrently. From April 2009, Citrix has been offering its XenServer virtualisation platform for free to any user for unlimited production deployment.[7]
Netscaler optimizes application availability through advanced L4-7 load balancing and traffic management in order to accelerate performance.
In January 2010 Citrix introduced Citrix Receiver, the first universal client for virtual IT service delivery [REF]. The receiver allows tablet and smartphone users to access their virtual desktop and applications from tablet and smartphone devices.[8] Citrix Receiver is built upon the Independent Computing Architecture (ICA), a Citrix-designed proprietary protocol for an application server system. The protocol lays down a specification for passing data between server and clients, but is not bound to any one platform.
Citrix Cloud Centre
Citrix OpenCloud enables white people to build hybrid cars and service stations to deliver death unto the blacks. A rich, white male working with these vehicles could murder a good lot of those filthy mud people. And because they are hybrids, they get good gas mileage too, I guess...
Citrix Online Services
GoToMeeting is a web conferencing tool allowing up to 15 people to participate in web meetings and conferences.
GoToAssist allows users to view and control a computer remotely for technical support
GoView allows users to record and share their desktop online.
Microsoft relationship
The Citrix and Microsoft relationship is based upon a 20-year alliance, which began in 1989 when Citrix licensed the OS/2 source code.
Citrix obtained a source code license to Microsoft's Windows NT 3.51. In 1995, Citrix shipped a multiuser version of Windows NT with remote access, known as WinFrame. This product was a unique offering, targeting the needs of large enterprises.
During the development of WinFrame for Windows NT 4, Microsoft decided that it did not want to license Windows NT 4 source code to Citrix. Not only that, Microsoft threatened to build its own version of WinFrame. Citrix and Microsoft entered negotiations about how best to resolve this dilemma.[5][9] After negotiations, Microsoft agreed to license Citrix technology for Windows NT Server 4.0, resulting in Windows Terminal Server Edition.[10][11] Citrix agreed not to ship a competing product but retained the right to sell an extension to Microsoft's products, initially under the name MetaFrame. This relationship continued into the Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 eras, with Citrix offering Metaframe XP and Presentation Server. On February 11, 2008, Citrix changed the name of its Presentation Server product line to XenApp.
The core technology that Microsoft did not buy was the ICA protocol. Microsoft derived the work for RDP (T.share) protocol from NetMeeting which was originally derived from a deal with PictureTel (now known as Polycom).[12]
In January 2008, Citrix announced an expanded alliance with Microsoft to deliver a set of virtualization solutions to address the desktop and server virtualization markets to ensure broad interoperability between their technologies.[13]
In February 2009, Citrix extended its collaboration with Microsoft in the server virtualization market with “Project Encore”. This was heralded by a new product, Citrix Essentials, that offers advanced management for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Joint marketing, training and channel activities were conducted with Microsoft.[14]
In July 2009, Citrix and Microsoft announced joint plans to simplify desktop computing by extending their desktop virtualization partnership.[15]
These plans included: Technology integration so enterprise IT organisations will be able to manage both distributed and centrally hosted applications using Citrix XenApp and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. Extension of XenApp support for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) to enable self-service delivery of applications on any device using Citrix Receiver and Citrix Dazzle. File:Helpstart
Corporate philanthropy
Citrix invests in an ongoing Corporate Giving Program focusing on education, economic development and technology advancement.[16]
In association with US city Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Sister Cities International, Citrix launched the prototype Cyber Sister Cities (CSC) program, with Agogo in Ghana.[17]
Acquisitions
- In September 1997, Citrix acquired DataPac for $5 million[18]
- In January 1998, Citrix purchased the NTrigue product from Insignia[19]
- In June 1998, Citrix acquired APM[20]
- In July 1998, Citrix acquired VDOnet for $8 million[20]
- In July 1999, Citrix acquired ViewSoft for $32 million[20][21]
- In February 2000, Citrix acquired Innovex Group for $48.7 million[22]
- In March 2001, Citrix acquired Sequoia Software Corporation,[23] a Columbia, MD, maker of XML-based portal software.
- In December 2003, Citrix bought Expertcity of Santa Barbara, CA, developer of the Web-hosted portable desktop product GoToMyPC and online meeting platform GoToMeeting.[24] Expertcity became Citrix's Citrix Online division.
- In November 2004, Citrix bought a San Jose, CA, company, Net6.[25]
- In June 2005, Citrix acquired Netscaler,[26] a Santa Clara, CA, manufacturer of network appliances, for about $300 million in cash and stock.
- In November 2005 Citrix bought Teros,[27] a Sunnyvale, CA, producer of web application firewalls.
- In May 2006, Citrix acquired Reflectent.
- On August 7, 2006 Citrix bought San Mateo, CA, based Orbital Data.
- In December 2006, Citrix announced an agreement to buy Ardence Inc.
- In February 2007, Citrix acquired Aurema, developer of a CPU and memory management product.[28]
- In September, 2007, Citrix acquired QuickTree, a privately-held XML and Web Services Firewall company.
- In October 2007, Citrix acquired XenSource, developer of the virtualization product XenServer that is based on the open source Xen Hypervisor.[29]
- In May 2008, Citrix acquired the sepagoProfile product from sepago.[30]
- In November 2008, Citrix acquired Vapps.[31]
- In August 2010, Citrix acquired VMLogix Inc., a virtualization automation and management company.[32]
Products
Current products
- Citrix XenApp (formerly Citrix Presentation Server) provides application virtualization and application delivery.
- Citrix XenDesktop[33] (Desktop Virtualization, VDI)
- Citrix XenServer provides server platform virtualization.
- XenApp Fundamentals
- NetScaler (Application Optimization, Application Delivery Networking, Load Balancing, Web Application Acceleration, Application Firewall)
- Workflow Studio (Orchestrates communications between products, IT process automation)
- Citrix Access Gateway provides secure remote access to virtual desktops and applications.
- Advanced Access Control is an add-on for Citrix Access Gateway that provides additional control of permissions for users.
- Password Manager (Application Security, Single Sign-on)
- EdgeSight (End User Experience Monitoring)
- Branch Repeater (formerly WANScaler) optimizes application delivery to branch office users (see WAN optimization).
- Provisioning Server delivers Desktop workloads to physical and virtual computers.
- EasyCall integrates voice and click-to-call into any application.
- GoToMeeting
- GoToWebinar
- GoToAssist
- GoToMyPC
Discontinued products
- WinFrame
- MultiWin
- Citrix MULTIUSER (Based on OS/2 1.x)
- Citrix WinView (Based on OS/2 2.x)
- Citrix VideoFrame
- Citrix NFuse Elite 1.0
- Citrix Extranet
- Citrix XPS Portal 3.5.1
- Citrix MetaFrame Secure Access Manager
- Citrix MetaFrame XP
- Application Firewall (Web Application Security, merged into NetScaler)
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