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Citrix Systems, Inc.
Public
(NASDAQ: CTXS)
S&P 500 Component
Industry Software
Founded 1989
Founder Ed Iacobucci
Headquarters Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Area served
 Global
Key people
 Thomas F. Bogan (Chairman)
Mark B. Templeton (CEO)
Products Application Delivery Industry, Virtualization software
Revenue
  • Increase US$ 2,918.434 million (2013) [1]
  • Increase US$ 2,586.123 million (2012) [1]
  • Decrease US$ 380.717 million (2013) [1]
  • Decrease US$ 390.778 million (2012) [1]
  • Decrease US$ 339.523 million (2013) [1]
  • Decrease US$ 352.547 million (2012) [1]
Total assets
  • Increase US$ 5,212.249 million (2013) [2]
  • Increase US$ 4,796.402 million (2012) [1]
Total equity
  • Increase US$ 3,319.807 million (2013) [2]
  • Increase US$ 3,121.777 million (2012) [1]
Number of employees
 8,212 (Dec 2012)[3]
Website www.citrix.com
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Citrix System headquarters 1991–1997

Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational software company founded in 1989 that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies, including Xen open-source products.

Citrix currently services around 330,000 organizations worldwide[4] and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in the Miami metropolitan area, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, and additional development centers in Canada, Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, India and Australia.

Following the acquisition of XenSource, Inc. in October 2007, Citrix started spearheading the Xen open-source hypervisor project.[5]

History[edit]

Citrix was founded in Richardson, Texas, in 1989 by former IBM developer Ed Iacobucci with $3 million in funding.[6] Following its initial setup and development, Iacobucci moved the company to his former home of Coral Springs, Florida.[6]

Citrix was originally named Citrus but changed its name after an existing company claimed trademark rights. The Citrix name is a portmanteau of Citrus and UNIX.

Many of the original founding members had participated in the IBM OS/2 project. Iacobucci's vision was to build OS/2 with multiuser support. IBM was not interested in this idea, so Iacobucci left.[citation needed] Iacobucci was offered a job at Microsoft as chief technical officer of its networking group but turned it down to start his own company.[6]

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's declaring in 1991 that it was no longer going to support OS/2.[6]

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.[6]

In 1993, Citrix purchased the product "NetWare Access Server" 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 users in a similar way that terminal 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.[6]

Microsoft relationship[edit]

The Citrix and Microsoft relationship is based upon a 20-year alliance that 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. Microsoft considered to build its own version of WinFrame. Citrix and Microsoft entered negotiations about how best to resolve this dilemma.[6][7] After negotiations, Microsoft agreed to license Citrix technology for Windows NT Server 4.0, resulting in Windows Terminal Server Edition.[8][9] 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 originally derived it from a deal with PictureTel (now known as Polycom).[10]

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.[11]

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.[12]

In July 2009, Citrix and Microsoft announced joint plans to simplify desktop computing by extending their desktop virtualization partnership.[13]

These plans included:

Corporate philanthropy[edit]

Citrix invests in an ongoing Corporate Giving Program focusing on education, economic development and technology advancement.[14]

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.[15]

Acquisitions[edit]

When What Price
September 1997 DataPac[16] $5 million
January 1998 The NTrigue product from Insignia[17] ?
June 1998 APM[18] ?
July 1998 VDOnet $8 million[18]
July 1999 ViewSoft[18][19] $32 million
February 2000 Innovex Group $48.7 million[20]
March 2001 Sequoia Software Corporation,[21] a Columbia, MD, maker of XML-based portal software. $185 million
December 2003 Expertcity of Santa Barbara, CA, developer of the Web-hosted portable desktop product GoToMyPC and online meeting platform GoToMeeting.[22] Expertcity became Citrix's Citrix Online division. $225 million
November 2004 Net6 of San Jose, CA.[23] $50 million
June 2005 Netscaler,[24] a Santa Clara, CA, manufacturer of network appliances. About $300 million in cash and stock.
November 2005 Teros,[25] a Sunnyvale, CA, producer of web application firewalls. ?
May 2006 Reflectent.[26] The product Spectacle was then relabeled as Citrix EdgeSight. ?
August 7, 2006 Orbital Data of San Mateo, California.[27] ?
December 2006 Ardence Inc., resulting in the product Citrix Provisioning Services[28](PVS[29]) ?
February 2007 Aurema, developer of a CPU and memory management product,[30] resulting in the addition of a CPU management feature to Citrix's main product XenApp. ?
September 2007 QuickTree, a privately held XML and Web Services Firewall company. ?
October 2007 XenSource, developer of the virtualization product XenServer that is based on the open source Xen Hypervisor.[31][32] ?
May 2008 The sepagoProfile product from sepago.[33] ?
November 2008 Vapps[34] $26.6 million
August 2010 VMLogix Inc., a virtualization automation and management company.[35] ?
February 2011 Netviewer[36] ?
February 2011 Ems-Cortex. Cortex product now sold as CloudPortal Services Manager ?
June 2011 Kaviza, now resulting in a product called VDI-in-a-box. ?
July 2011 Cloud.com[37] ?
August 2011 RingCube ?
October 2011 ShareFile[38] ?
October 2011 App-DNA[38] ?
April 2012 Podio [39][40] ?
May 2012 Virtual Computer ?
June 2012 Bytemobile[41] $435 million
September 2012 Beetil ?
December 2012 Zenprise now sold as XenMobile[42] $327 million
September 2013 Byte Squared ?
January 2014 FrameHawk ?
May 2014 Scalextreme ?
August 2014 Virtual, iOS and Android virtualization.[43] ?
October 2014 RightSignature, a company that provides online document signing tools.[44] ?
November 2014 Solid Instance ?
December 2014 Octoblu, a machine to machine networking platform ?
January 2015 Sanbolic, a storage virtualization technologies company ?

Layoffs[edit]

On July 9, 2002 Citrix announced a 10% job cut.[45] At the time the company employed about 1,900 workers. After the announcement the stock hit a five year low.

On January 29, 2009 Citrix announced that 460 employee positions would be cut, comprising 10% of its workforce. [46]

On January 29, 2015 Citrix announced that 700 full-time and 200 contractor positions would be eliminated.[47] This constituted about 10% of its workforce. The cuts were expected to save between $90 and $100 million a year. Two hundred of the layoffs occurred in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where the company is headquartered.[48]

Products[edit]

Current products[edit]

  • Citrix XenApp (formerly Citrix Presentation Server) provides application virtualization and application delivery.
  • Citrix XenDesktop[49] (Desktop Virtualization, VDI)
  • Citrix VDI-in-a-Box[50] (Desktop Virtualization, VDI)
  • Citrix XenServer provides server platform virtualization.
  • XenApp Fundamentals
  • Workflow Studio (Orchestrates communications between products, IT process automation)
  • 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)
  • Command Center (Citrix products Monitoring tool)
  • Provisioning Server delivers Desktop workloads to physical and virtual computers.
  • EasyCall integrates voice and click-to-call into any application.
  • GoToMeeting
  • 'GoToWebinar'
  • GoToAssist
  • GoToMyPC
  • NetScaler App Delivery Controller – application availability, application and database server offload, acceleration and advanced attack protection
  • CloudStack – Cloud infrastructure for enterprises and service providers
  • CloudGateway – aggregate and control enterprise applications and services
  • CloudBridge (formerly "WANScaler", "Branch Repeater", "NetScaler Branch Repeater") optimizes application delivery to branch office users (see WAN optimization).(Seamlessly connect your data centre to external clouds)
  • CloudPortal – Automated operations and business support for cloud providers
  • Podio – Collaborative platform for all types of business
  • ShareFile – Professional File sharing for desktop and mobile devices
  • XenClient – Virtual desktops on the go even when disconnected
  • Citrix Receiver – Universal software client for accessing desktop apps and IT services
  • ByteMobile
  • OpenVoice
  • CloudPlatform- Powered by Apache CloudStack(Hypervisors-VMware, Oracle VM, KVM, XenServer and Xen Cloud Platform)

Further reading: "Product Matrix". Citrix Systems, Inc. 

Discontinued products[edit]

  • 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
  • Citrix MetaFrame for UNIX
  • Application Firewall (Web Application Security, merged into NetScaler)
  • WANScaler merged into CloudBridge
  • Branch Repeater merged into CloudBridge
  • NetScaler App Firewall – Web Application Firewall
  • NetScaler Branch Repeater merged into CloudBridge
  • NetScaler Cloud Connector – End-to-End Acceleration, Encryption and Management of Data warehouse applications (renamed CloudBridge)
  • NetScaler Gateway (Formerly "Citrix Access Gateway") provides secure remote access to virtual desktops and applications.
  • NetScaler Gateway – SSL VPN / secure remote access (CloudGateway)

Further reading: "Legacy Product Matrix". Citrix Systems, Inc. 

References[edit]

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  49. ^ [3] "Products and solutions"
  50. ^ [4] "VDI-in-a-box"

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