Citrix NetScaler Grows Market Share in Advanced Application Delivery Market.New Report from Leading Research Firm Shows Citrix Continuing to Gain Ground in $900M Application Delivery Controller Market FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- 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. (Nasdaq:CTXS CTXS Citrix Systems (NASDAQ stock ticker symbol) ), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced continued growth in the $900M Application Delivery Controller (ADC (1) See A/D converter. (2) (Apple Display Connector) A peripheral connector from Apple that combines digital video display, USB and power in one cable. ) market 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. a December 2006 report from Gartner titled, "Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 3Q06." 1 From Q206 to Q306 the Citrix[R] NetScaler[R] web application delivery product line posted market share gains in both the overall Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) Market Share segment and the Advanced Platform Application Delivery Controllers (AP-ADC) Market Share sub-segment.2 According to Gartner estimates, Citrix Systems was one of only two market leaders to show an increase in worldwide market share and manufacturer revenue in the $140M AP-ADC sub-segment, an area which Gartner believes will show "long- term growth at the high end." 3 Increased demand among enterprise customers to centralize cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. servers and deploy mission-critical web applications to an increasingly complex range of end users continues to be a growing trend in the web application delivery market, and the shift toward more integrated solutions has generated the need for improved performance, greater scalability and increased security. With market-leading application layer performance, Citrix NetScaler has an established track record of delivering many of the world's most demanding and high profile web applications, making it a proven choice for enterprises of all sizes who want to accelerate the performance of business-critical web applications, secure sensitive application data and lower the cost of delivering web applications to any user, in any location. Acquired in mid-2005, the NetScaler product line has continued to gain market share in the web application delivery market as Citrix has extended its reach into the worldwide Citrix installed base and distribution channel. "We are pleased to see customers responding so well to the Citrix NetScaler product line as their preferred solution for delivering enterprise web applications with the fastest performance, best security and lowest cost of ownership," said Wes Wasson, corporate vice president of worldwide marketing, Citrix Systems. "By focusing on making it increasingly easy for enterprise customers to move from first-generation load balancers to advanced solutions that actually improve all aspects of the application experience, we believe Citrix can continue to grow its leadership in this important market." About Citrix NetScaler Citrix NetScaler optimizes the delivery of web applications -- improving performance, increasing security, and improving web server capacity. This approach ensures the best total cost of ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ), security, availability, and performance for web applications. The Citrix NetScaler solution is a comprehensive network system that combines high-speed load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them and content switching with state-of-the-art application acceleration, layer 4-7 traffic management, data compression data compression Process of reducing the amount of data needed for storage or transmission of a given piece of information (text, graphics, video, sound, etc.), typically by use of encoding techniques. , dynamic content caching, SSL acceleration SSL acceleration is a method of offloading the processor-intensive public key encryption algorithms involved in SSL transactions to a hardware accelerator. Typically, this is a separate card that plugs into a PCI slot in a computer that contains one or more co-processors able to , network optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. , and robust application security into a single, tightly integrated solution. Deployed in front of application servers, the system significantly reduces processing overhead on application and database servers, reducing hardware and bandwidth costs. About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 180,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2005 was $909M. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. which are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. 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. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with revenue growth and recognition of revenue, products, their development and distribution, product demand and pipeline, economic and competitive factors, the Company's key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as 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. Citrix[R] and NetScaler[R] are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. 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