Citrix Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Magazine's Excellence Award for 2006.

Citrix Application Gateway and Citrix Voice Office Honored For Delivering Exceptional IP Telephony Solutions

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced that Technology Marketing CorporationeIUs (TMCE1/2) INTERNET TELEPHONYE1/2 magazine (www.itmag.com) has named Citrix Application Gatewaye with the CitrixE1/2 Voice Office application suite as a recipient of a 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been a VoIP Authority since 1998e.

"We are honored to receive recognition for the innovative IP Communications applications being delivered through the Citrix Application Gateway," said Gordon Payne, vice president of marketing, Advanced Solutions Group, Citrix. "This is especially significant as it is based on the experience of one of our customers, Credit Valley Hospital, who is leveraging Citrix Voice Office applications to speed communications and eliminate the cost of a separate overhead paging system. They are a great example of how organizations are utilizing Citrix application delivery solutions to gain further benefit from their IP telephony investment."

The Citrix Application Gateway is used by organizations such as Credit Valley Hospital to deliver IP Communications applications to IP telephones and userseIU PCs. Citrix Voice Office is a suite of packaged IP telephony applications, including Click-to-Call, Zone Paging, Visual Voicemail, Broadcast Alerts, and Express Directory. Citrix Click-to-Call enables users to dial their desk telephone by simply clicking on any telephone number in any application, whether it is deployed on Citrix Presentation Servere or on the usereIUs PC or laptop. These applications increase employee productivity, reduce user training, and provide new ways to communicate that were previously not available with traditional telephone systems. For more information about how Credit Valley Hospital is using Citrix solutions, please visit http://www.citrix.com/English/aboutCitrix/caseStudies/caseStudy.asp?st oryID=25020. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

"The editorial staff of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine is proud to announce the winners of the second annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Awards. These companies are as varied as the products that fit under the IP telephony umbrella, but they have all achieved delivering winning solutions for their customerseIU needs," indicated Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

"The winners of the second annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award are leaders in VoIP. Taking risks to advance VoIP technology and provide real solutions has earned Citrix recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY. Citrix Application Gateway and Citrix Voice Office have excelled in the VoIP/IP Telephony industry, and most importantly, its customers are willing to offer their testaments of support," said Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Minacom. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 55,000.

The 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners will be published in the October 2006 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com, or can be found directly online at http://www.tmcnet.com/awards/it-excellence-award-winners-2006.htm.

For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About TMCE1/2

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 2,100 sites in the world by alexa.com(1), TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. ((1)alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

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.

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