Citrix Technology Licensed by Yahoo! For Use With Corporate Yahoo! Service; Citrix NFuse Technology Allows for Faster, More Efficient Access to Applications On Corporate Yahoo!Business Editors PC Expo A trade show for resellers, corporate managers and technical professionals from CMP Media LLC, a subsidiary of United Business Media. First held in New York in 1983 with 120 exhibitors and 9,600 attendees, the show grew from the personal computer's early years to 550 vendors and more than 2000 NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com 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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2000 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) ) today announced a licensing agreement with Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ) allowing Yahoo! to market and demonstrate Citrix(R) NFuse(TM) business application integration technology to customers of Corporate Yahoo!(TM) (http://corporate.yahoo.com), a customized enterprise information portal See corporate portal. based on the widely adopted My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) interface. With Citrix NFuse technology, available from Citrix, Corporate Yahoo! customers can benefit from integrating existing server-based applications simply by clicking a link or icon. The agreement also includes joint enterprise marketing and sales opportunities as well as channel development and education. Corporate Yahoo! and Citrix NFuse technology will be showcased at PC Expo in New York's Javits Center, Citrix's booth, number 3912, on June 27 through June 29, 2000. "The convenience, efficiency and simplicity of accessing information via Corporate Yahoo! will improve the way enterprises work and communicate," said Barry Davis Barry Davis (born September 15, 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer. Essendon career Recruited from Essendon High School and making his debut with Essendon Football Club in the VFL in 1961, Davis played off the half-back line and was quite a prolific player. , vice president of corporate alliances, Citrix. "Our application-serving expertise, our NFuse application portal offering, and now our relationship with Yahoo! helps position Citrix as a leader in the application portal space." "Corporate Yahoo! helps Global 2000 companies enhance their corporate intranets and extranets by providing a compelling service for accessing both corporate and personal information," said John Willcutts, vice president, Yahoo! Enterprise Services. "Citrix NFuse technology, in conjunction with Corporate Yahoo!, helps to provide personalized, managed application delivery to the browser." Citrix NFuse is an application portal product that enables Windows(R) and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) applications running on a Citrix MetaFrame(TM) server farm to be "published" onto a Web page. For the first time, end users can access and "subscribe" to interactive applications and content through a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . NFuse enables IT managers to instantly integrate interactive applications into any standard Web browser; personalize applications and content by user; and provide more manageability with centralized deployment. (See attached graphic.) About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. is a global leader in application server software and services that offer "Digital Independence(TM)" - the ability to run any application on any device over any connection, wireless to Web. Citrix's solutions enable organizations of all types, from major enterprises to emerging application service providers (ASPs), to reach more users, with more applications, in more locations - and achieve this with greater speed and predictability, and lower costs. Its products, including MetaFrame application server software, NFuse application portal software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. , and Independent Computing Architecture Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) is a proprietary protocol for an application server system, designed by Citrix Systems. The protocol lays down a specification for passing data between server and clients, but is not bound to any one platform. (ICA Ica (ē`kä), city (1993 pop. 108,724), capital of Ica dept., SW Peru, on the Pan-American Highway. It is a commercial center for the cotton, wool, and wine produced in the region. There are several summer resorts nearby. (R)), a core application-server technology, have been widely adopted by the corporate mainstream to achieve key business goals. The firm, which markets its solutions through value-added resellers, system integrators and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and licensees, is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Citrix is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. (SM) under the symbol CTXS and is part of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. 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 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. 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 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 a paper/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 devised 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 enhancements to existing products; 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; risks that the company's branding campaign will not enhance the company's business or results in the manner anticipated; as well as risks of downturns in economic conditions generally, and in the software industry specifically, and risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures 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 in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. This release may also contain forward-looking statements regarding the business of other referenced companies. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those expressed in such statements. Additional information can be obtained in other referenced companies' filings with the SEC. Citrix(R), MetaFrame(TM), NFuse(TM), ICA(R) and Digital Independence(TM) are registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Yahoo!, Corporate Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. UNIX(R) is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the U.S. and other countries. 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