Citrix Wins Grand Award at Annual SoftSummit 2005; Award Honors Citrix for Raising the Bar Across Six Software Categories for Software Value Management.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 access infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has received the first annual Summit Award at SoftSummit 2005. Citrix is the grand winner of all publisher categories for implementing a single licensing platform that allows customers to enjoy a streamlined and automated process to monitor, maintain and track software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. at lower costs. "Citrix is honored to receive this award which recognizes our mission to provide our customers value management," said Harvey Tenen, senior product manager for Citrix Systems. "We're dedicated to designing products that reduce customers' total cost of ownership while maximizing their return on investments in IT infrastructure." Out of 31 finalists, Citrix took the grand prize proving the best in Software Value Management - http://www.softsummit.com/about_SVM SVM Support Vector Machines SVM School of Veterinary Medicine SVM Solaris Volume Manager SVM Space Vector Modulation SVM Storage Virtualization Manager (StoreAge) SVM Service Module (also abbreviated as S/M) .html - as determined by an independent panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
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See Synonyms at desire. award, but Citrix demonstrated superior value to customers with their access infrastructure solutions," said Jonathan Eunice, principal analyst at Illuminata and one of this year's Summit Awards judges. "Citrix clearly rose to the top based on its ability to raise the bar by baking software value management into its solutions." The Summit Awards honor the software industry's leading vendors that deliver software applications that maximize value for their customers and reduce the time and cost of developing and maintaining products, as well as enterprises that excel at Verb 1. excel at - be good at; "She shines at math" shine at excel, surpass, stand out - distinguish oneself; "She excelled in math" serving their end-users. In addition to grand prize awarded to Citrix, six Summit Awards were presented at the conference in the following categories: enterprise application management, product design automation, enterprise security and business applications. About SoftSummit SoftSummit is the premier conference for Software Value Management, which includes pricing, purchasing, licensing, and updating software. The event includes hundreds of executives from many of the world's largest software publishers as well as Fortune 500 companies. Sponsored by Macrovision Corporation, SoftSummit 2005 was held October 10-11 at the Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, Calif. Additional sponsorship opportunities are still available. For more information or to register, visit http://www.softsummit.com. About Macrovision Macrovision Corporation is the market leader in electronic licensing, installation, and digital rights management (DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio. (2) (Digital Rights M ) technologies. Over 50,000 software publishers and virtually all of the Fortune 1000 companies use Macrovision's technologies to maximize the value of their software. Software Value Management solutions bridge the gap between pricing and packaging software on the developer side, and purchasing and managing that software on the enterprise side. Macrovision's Software Technologies Group markets the FLEXnet universal licensing platform and the InstallShield(R) and Zero G suite of software installation, repackaging and update solutions, which are deployed on more than 500 million desktops worldwide. Macrovision holds more than 890 software licensing, DRM and content protection patents worldwide. Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. and has offices worldwide. More information about Macrovision and Software Value Management solutions can be found at http://www.macrovision.com. 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 2004 were $741 million. Learn more 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. 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. 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