Citrix and EPiCON Strengthen Strategic Relationship; Citrix Extends Agreement To License EPiCON's ALTiS Technology.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2000 EPiCON, Inc. announced that Citrix(R) Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS CTXS Citrix Systems (NASDAQ stock ticker symbol) ) has extended its agreement to license EPiCON's ALTiS software as the core technology of Citrix's Installation Management Services. With this agreement, Citrix is reinforcing its strategic relationship with EPiCON, which began over two years ago when the company selected ALTiS as the foundation for Installation Management Services. EPiCON's ALTiS is an innovative software platform that enables Application Service Providers (ASPs) and enterprises to centrally manage the full application life-cycle, including deployment, installation, update, "self-healing" and removal over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , intranets and LANs. As the foundation for Citrix Installation Management Services, ALTiS technology provides automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. server-based application replication In database management, the ability to keep distributed databases synchronized by routinely copying the entire database or subsets of the database to other servers in the network. There are various replication methods. capabilities, enabling Citrix customers to accelerate application deployment to users, increase the efficiency of software replication across server "farms," and reduce costs. "A key factor in achieving the Citrix vision of `Digital Independence(TM)' - access to any application, over any network connection, on any device - is rapid application deployment," said Ed Ryan Edward Dennis Ryan (born on December 29, 1925 in Banff, Alberta, Canada) is a former NFL Defensive End with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia and attended college at St. Mary's College of California. , vice president of the Management Products Group at Citrix. "Citrix Installation Management Services, based on EPiCON ALTiS technology, helps our customers make business-critical applications available to users rapidly and cost-effectively from large Citrix server installations. We are pleased to continue our licensing of ALTiS and our productive relationship with EPiCON." "We are extremely proud of our strategic relationship with 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. ," said Jack Sweeney Sweeney in poems by T. S. Eliot, symbolizes the sensual, brutal, and materialistic 20th-century man. [Br. Poetry, Benét, 978] See : Virility , president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of EPiCON. "The 1998 licensing agreement between Citrix and EPiCON was a key endorsement of EPiCON and our software. We are particularly pleased by this expansion of our agreement, because it demonstrates how much our technology is valued by one of the most innovative and dynamic companies in the software industry." "We believe that the success of Citrix's Installation Management Services is also EPiCON's success," continued Sweeney. "We will continue to work with Citrix to provide the optimal solutions for application deployment and management." About EPiCON EPiCON(TM), Inc. provides an innovative software platform that enables Application Service Providers (ASPs) and enterprises to centrally manage the full application life-cycle, including deployment, installation, update, "self-healing" and termination, over the Internet, intranets and LANs. ASPs can expand their application offerings and dramatically increase their "Application Quality of Service" by managing the desktop side of all types of applications, including browsers, plug-ins and full thick client applications. Enterprises can radically simplify the software deployment Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use. The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. life cycle and reduce support costs. Details at: http://www.epicon.com. |
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