Citrix Announces Bundled Web-Based Training Course and Exam Opportunity for Citrix Business Affiliates and Sales Professionals.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2001

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), a leading provider of application serving and portal software and services, today announced that its new "Selling Citrix Solutions" Web-based training course (CTX-5082W) and Citrix Certified Sales Professional (CCSP) exam are now available for purchase as a bundled offering. Designed for members of the Citrix Solutions Network(TM)(CSN) and Citrix Business Alliance(TM)(CBA), as well as other sales professionals interested in learning more about Citrix's server-based computing solutions, "Selling Citrix Solutions" educates participants in selling, marketing and efficiently presenting Citrix products, services and technology to prospects. Introduced in 2000, there are now over 5,000 CCSPs worldwide.

With the most up-to-date Citrix product information incorporated, CTX-5082W includes coverage of the Citrix(R) MetaFrame XP(TM) product family, the company's most powerful application serving and management platform, as well as Citrix MetaFrame(R) 1.8, Citrix MetaFrame for UNIX(R) and Citrix NFuse(TM). As a Web-based offering, the training course and exam make extensive use of graphics, Web effects and voice-over features to fully engage the student over the Web.

"We are always looking for new ways to enhance our certification and training offerings," said Carol Guzzo, director of worldwide education programs for Citrix. "By bundling the selling solutions course with its associated exam, we are making it even easier for selling professionals to acquire the skills necessary to execute flawlessly and clearly communicate features and functions to customers in order to help them solve critical business issues."

Pricing and Availability

Priced at $200 (SRP), the new bundled training course and exam option is available immediately from Citrix's worldwide CALCs or via 2Prep.com (http://www.2prep.com), a specialized Web training center operated by Thomson Learning.

About Citrix Training and Certification

Citrix Training and Certification offers professional training courses through over 300 Citrix Authorized Learning Centers (CALCs), using Citrix Professional Courseware instructional materials developed to educate industry professionals on the company's products. CALCs are worldwide technical training facilities that provide instruction for the installation and administration of Citrix products, including Citrix MetaFrame XP(TM), Citrix MetaFrame(R) 1.8, Citrix MetaFrame for UNIX(R) and Citrix NFuse(TM). For more information on the Citrix certification programs and to obtain a detailed list of Citrix Authorized Learning Centers, please visit http://www.citrix.com/training/.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. is a global leader in application serving and portal software and services that provide personalized access to any application or information source - whether Windows(R), UNIX(R) or Web-based - through any device, over any connection. Companies worldwide use Citrix technologies to integrate applications, content and business processes into a pervasive digital environment - a virtual workplace - offering seamless connectivity and a consistent user experience across the Internet, intranets, extranets, WANs, LANs and wireless networks. Citrix solutions drive cost efficiency, productivity and enhanced e-business opportunities by enabling companies to leverage existing IT resources and extend personalized information access to employees, partners, customers and suppliers.

Citrix products offer rapid, cost-effective deployment and include MetaFrame(R) application serving software, NFuse(TM) application portal software, XPS(TM) portal software, application management products, and Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA)(R), a core application serving technology. The company markets its application serving products through a well-established reseller channel and sells its portal software products directly to customers to provide the level of customization they need. Citrix is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market(SM) under the symbol CTXS, and is part of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index. Citrix is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, please visit the Citrix Web site at http://www.citrix.com.

For Citrix Investors

This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release which are not strictly historical statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding current or future financial performance, management's plans and objectives for future operations, product plans and performance, management's assessment of market factors, as well as statements regarding the strategy and plans of the company and its strategic partners, constitute forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, risks associated with the following: the success of the company's MetaFrame and portal software product line and the acceptance of the company's ICA protocol; the company's ability to develop and commercialize new products and services; the company's success in expanding into new geographic markets; the company's ability to expand its core business in large enterprise accounts; the company's ability to succeed in the transition to an electronic licensing model; the size, timing and recognition of revenue from significant orders; increased competition, including potential competition from Microsoft and other companies; the results of the company's iBusiness and other new licensing programs; the rate of growth of the ASP market, and the company's ability to continue to develop and market products to meet the requirements of this market; the proportion of revenues derived from distributors, OEMs and other channels; changes in the company's pricing policies or those of its competitors, including Microsoft; the costs of developing, acquiring, or integrating new technologies or enhancement to existing products; the risks associated with third party licensing arrangements; the company's ability to successfully integrate and manage merged or acquired companies, including Sequoia Software Corporation; the company's ability to maintain or further develop Sequoia's customer and employee relationships following such merger or acquisition; the company's reliance upon its strategic relationships with Microsoft and other strategic partners; management of growth; the possibility of undetected software errors; dependence on proprietary technology; as well as risks of downturns in economic conditions generally, and in the software industry specifically, and other risks detailed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein.

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