Citrix Access Infrastructure Helps Snowflake School District Comply with No Child Left Behind Act.

Business Editors/Education Writers/High-Tech Writers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2004

Arizona School District Delivers Education On Demand, Increases

Student Achievement with Access Strategy Built on Citrix Software

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced that Snowflake Unified School District (SUSD), a rural school district in Northeastern Arizona with 2,500 students, has deployed Citrix(R) MetaFrame(R) Presentation Server to provide teachers, administrators and students with on-demand, centralized access to Web-based and client/server applications and information. By implementing an access strategy based on Citrix access infrastructure, in combination with Wyse(R) Winterm(TM) thin-client terminals, SUSD can cost-effectively provide equal access to educational resources in support of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Signed into law in January 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act raises student achievement requirements for K-12 public schools throughout the United States and increases accountability for teachers and school administrators. The Act is based on four basic education reform principles - stronger accountability for results, record flexibility for states and communities, concentrated resources on proven education methods and more choices for parents(1).

Citrix access infrastructure has helped SUSD achieve its goal of improving the student-to-computer ratio by enabling the district's small IT staff to more cost-effectively and efficiently support an expanded network of 1,500 computers located across six schools and central administration offices. Prior to Citrix, SUSD required twice as many IT staff to support fewer computers. With Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server, SUSD has measurably improved overall productivity to keep pace with IT issues and avoid technology disruptions in the classrooms. SUSD has also reduced its cost of IT ownership by deploying the latest educational applications over thin-client terminals.

"New federal and state education standards have brought significant issues to the forefront for our district, including the need for greater equity of access to information," said Greg Wyman, superintendent of Snowflake Unified School District. "Faced with a limited budget, hiring additional IT staff to manage and expand our entire district-wide system was not an option. Therefore, using Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server to centrally manage applications and resources is extremely important to us as we focus our time and resources on closing the student achievement gap."

With MetaFrame Presentation Server, SUSD's students, faculty and administrative staff benefit from secure, role-based access to the most current applications, including the PLATO curriculum package and Ainsworth typing program, from any location or access device and over any network connection. Additionally, in support of greater accountability, parents can now access their own child's grades to monitor performance and ensure that any issues are immediately addressed with the teacher.

"By leveraging Citrix access infrastructure, we got a larger bang for our buck -access to leading-edge technology for a minimal cost," said Gary Sims, IT and service director of Snowflake Unified School District. "Now our students, teachers and staff can access the latest applications on existing hardware, which frees up the IT budget to purchase additional computers instead of needing to recycle older machines every few years. The next phase is to enable continuous learning by offering students remote access from home through Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server."

The foundation of the Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server is the world's most widely deployed presentation server for centrally managing heterogeneous applications and delivering their functionality as a service to workers, wherever they may be. MetaFrame Presentation Server is certified to run on Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2000 Server and Windows Server(TM) 2003, and supports virtually any custom or commercially packaged Windows or Web application. MetaFrame Presentation Server provides an exceptional foundation to build highly scalable, flexible, secure, manageable access solutions that reduce computing costs and increase the utility of any information system.

Citrix access infrastructure is used by nine of the 10 largest school districts, as defined by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and eight of the top 10 technology school districts throughout the United States, as ranked by District Administration Magazine.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader in access infrastructure solutions and the most trusted name in enterprise access. Citrix software enables people in businesses, government agencies, and educational institutions to securely, easily and instantly access the on-demand enterprise, from anywhere, anytime, using any device, over any connection. Nearly 50 million people in more than 120,000 organizations rely on the Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite to do their jobs. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies, 99% of the Fortune 500, and 92% of the Fortune Global 500. Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Citrix has offices in 22 countries, and more than 7,000 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. For more information visit http://www.citrix.com.

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(1) Nothing in this release constitutes or should be relied upon as legal advice. For an interpretation of the No Child Left Behind Act, readers should consult their own legal counsel.

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