Citrix Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Magazine's ''Product of the Year'' Award for 2005; The Citrix Application Gateway with Smart Agent Honored for Outstanding Innovation.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R))'s INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazine (http://www.itmag.com) has named Citrix Application Gateway(TM) with Smart Agent, as a recipient of a 2005 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP authority since 1998(TM).

"Citrix is dedicated to bringing innovative converged voice and data applications to customers who want to increase user productivity and improve emergency communications," said Gordon Payne, vice president of marketing, Gateways Group, Citrix. "We are delighted to receive this award from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine as a testament to how Citrix Smart Agent is changing the way organizations connect telephony and personal computers."

The Citrix Application Gateway with Smart Agent delivers IP Telephony applications to users IP telephones and voice enables business applications for knowledge workers. The Citrix(R) Voice Office application suite from Citrix is a set of packaged applications that are an optional feature on the Application Gateway. Voice Office includes Express Directory, Visual Voicemail, Zone Paging, Broadcast Alerts, and Click-to-Call using Citrix Smart Agent technology.

Citrix Smart Agent extends the Citrix Application Gateway to personal computers by voice-enabling business applications on the computer. The first Citrix application to use Smart Agent technology is Click-to-Call, which enables telephone users to dial their desk telephone by simply clicking on linked telephone numbers in e-mail or Web applications in both a Citrix Presentation Server(TM) and standalone environments.

"Each year INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements," said Rich Tehrani, group publisher and editor-in-chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY. "Citrix has demonstrated to the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY that its products and services are committed to quality and innovation while addressing real needs in the marketplace."

The Product of the Year Award winners for 2005 are highlighted in the January and February 2006 issues of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

About TMC(R)

Celebrating more than 30 years as a leading publisher, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R)) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions(R) and INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazines, Web portal TMCnet.com, and the online publications SIP(TM), Speech-World(TM), VoIP Developer(TM), WiFI Telephony(TM), WiMAX(TM), Alternative Power(TM) and BiometriTech(TM). TMC(R) is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC(R) Labs. TMC(R) produces INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Conference & EXPO, VoIP Developer Conference(TM) and Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit(TM). TMC offers live and online certification programs through TMC University. TMCnet.com publishes more than 14 online newsletters. Visit http://www.tmcnet.com for details.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and most trusted name in on-demand access. More than 160,000 organizations around the world use the Citrix Access Platform to provide the best possible access experience to any application for any user. 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 individuals. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Citrix annual revenues in 2005 were $909 million. Learn more at http://www.citrix.com.

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