Citrix Helps Auburn Career Center Provide 11 School Districts in Ohio With Improved On-Demand Training.

Business Editors/Education Writers/High-Tech Writers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2003

Award-Winning Career and Technical Training Facility Creates Model

Framework for U.S. Department of Education Program

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced that Auburn Career Center, a leading Career and Technical Training facility in Ohio, has selected Citrix(R) MetaFrame(R) Presentation Server to provide teachers, students and administrators across 11 school districts with secure, easy and instant access - on-demand - to educational applications. By implementing an on-demand classroom solution from Citrix, students benefit from consistent access to the information they need, anytime, anywhere, using any device, over any connection, whether they are in the classroom, library or at home, thus helping provide continuous learning and increasing student achievement.

Selected as a pilot site in Ohio for the "Building Linkages in Information Technologies Initiative" and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and the National School to Work Office, Auburn Career Center is creating an IT infrastructure that other schools throughout the state can use as a benchmark for providing career services to students. With more than 1,500 teachers, students and administrators from participating school districts accessing the Center and a limited budget, Auburn Career Center faced the challenges of updating its classroom computers to stay on the cutting edge of education while managing application access for effective classroom instruction.

"We needed a way to create an IT infrastructure that would not only support the technology career services of our district, but also serve as a model for other schools throughout the state," said Cameron Newpher, information technology consultant for Auburn Career Center.

"Citrix access infrastructure educational solutions have revolutionized our learning environment, giving students, teachers and administrators the tools to enhance teaching and learning," said Mr. G. Thomas Schultz, superintendent for Auburn Career Center.

With Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server, Auburn Career Center is able to extend the life of its IT infrastructure, run the latest applications on existing hardware and reduce its overall costs of computing. As a result, Auburn Career Center can purchase more computing devices that will improve the student-to-computer ratio. In addition to leveraging existing hardware, Citrix software also works seamlessly with Auburn Career Center's thin client devices and multi-platform computing environment, simplifying the complexity of IT, and enabling access to educational applications.

Auburn Career Center is also using the Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server to create an eLearning initiative where users can access applications via the Web and share resources such as calendars, schedules and task lists. All 1,500 users enjoy 24-hour Web-based access to the most current educational software applications such as PLATO Learning Systems, Magellan Assessment Software and Pearson Technologies SASIxp(TM) Suite of Student Information System Software. Teachers, students, parents, and appropriate staff now have secure, easy, and instant access to Web sites and applications that contain work assignments and work-in-progress information. Through Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server, all of Auburn Career Center's participating associate school districts have access to the information they need to help their students be better prepared at a price the center can afford.

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.

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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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