CITRIX DEFINES REMOTE COMPUTING STANDARD WITH NEXT-GENERATION DISTRIBUTED WINDOWS ARCHITECTURE; First Product Based on New Architecture to be Revealed June 20 at PC Expo.CORAL SPRINGS Coral Springs, city (1990 pop. 79,443), Broward co., SE Fla.; inc. 1963. Largely residential, it is a city that has grown rapidly along with the southern Florida and Fort Lauderdale area. The population of Coral Springs nearly doubled between 1980 and 1990. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 1995--CitrixTM Systems, Inc. announced today that it will leverage its expertise in Microsoft operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and networking technologies to provide an even faster distributed Windows remote computing environment with its next-generation Intelligent Console Architecture (ICA Ica (ē`kä), city (1993 pop. 108,724), capital of Ica dept., SW Peru, on the Pan-American Highway. It is a commercial center for the cotton, wool, and wine produced in the region. There are several summer resorts nearby. 3TM). The first product based on ICA3 will be introduced at PC Expo A trade show for resellers, corporate managers and technical professionals from CMP Media LLC, a subsidiary of United Business Media. First held in New York in 1983 with 120 exhibitors and 9,600 attendees, the show grew from the personal computer's early years to 550 vendors and more than in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on June 20, 1995. Citrix developed the industry-standard Intelligent Console Architecture to provide fast remote Windows communication capabilities for its line of remote computing software. The ICA distributed Windows architecture runs Windows client applications directly on Citrix application servers. Only user interface objects and events are distributed to remote PCs. As a result, ICA allows standard Windows LAN-based and client/server applications to perform at very high speed over low bandwidth connections, including standard telephone lines. Early benchmarks show that the new ICA3 distributed Windows protocol is twice as fast as its predecessor, ICA2, which became the underpinning for the company's award-winning WinViewTM for Networks software. "The primary mission of Citrix is to provide an enterprise-wide remote computing platform See platform. that gives users complete and speedy access to all types of Windows applications from any location," says Edward E. Iacobucci, chairman of Citrix Systems Citrix Systems' (NASDAQ: CTXS) is an American technology company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, with additional development centers in Australia, India and the UK. , Inc. "Our next-generation distributed Windows technology will extend the reach and continue to improve the performance of LAN-based and client/server Windows applications throughout the enterprise." Citrix will announce its first product based on the new ICA3 architecture during PC Expo in New York City on June 20. This product will provide a much broader definition for remote computing than traditional remote LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. access over dial-up telephone lines, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Iacobucci. Citrix will license its ICA3 technology as an industry-standard distributed Windows architecture to independent hardware and software vendors. "ICA3 will enable Citrix and other software and hardware developers to create products and services that will distribute standard Windows applications from central servers to a variety of end user devices across virtually any operating platform or standard network communications transport," explains Barry Dockswell, vice president of business development for Citrix Systems, Inc. For more information on the Citrix ICA3 licensing program, hardware and software vendors may contact Dockswell at (305)340-2208 or barryd@citrix.com. Citrix Systems, Inc. is a technology leader in providing comprehensive enterprise remote computing software for high-performance delivery of Windows and DOS applications to mobile users, remote sites and the Internet. Founded in 1989, the privately held firm is headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida Coral Springs, officially chartered July 10, 1963, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. According to the U.S. , and has regional sales offices throughout North America and the United Kingdom. For the past two years, Citrix has ranked in the top ten fastest growing software companies in the industry as published by Soft*Letter (May, 1995). NOTE TO EDITORS: Citrix, WinView and ICA are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Citrix Systems, Inc. Vicky Gore Harris, 305/340-2246 or Copithorne & Bellows David Morrison, 404/392-8611 |
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