Citrix and Macrovision Join Forces to Optimize Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite Licensing for Customers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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. & SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 2004 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, and Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN MVSN Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (Italy) ), the world's leading provider of software licensing technologies, today announced the integration of Macrovision FLEXnet(TM) into Citrix(R) MetaFrame(R) Access Suite 3.0. This licensing technology provides Citrix customers with a consistent licensing system for Citrix's flagship products A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , reduces the time customers spend on licensing administration, and allows customers to easily share licenses across multiple server farms. "Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite licensing makes it easier for our customers to monitor, maintain and dynamically share their licenses, which will save valuable time and resources and enable customers to get more use and value out of each license," said Rick Braddy, vice president of product management at Citrix. "This is truly a customer-driven improvement that will make life simpler for IT administrators." The MetaFrame Access Suite's new license architecture greatly reduces the administration of license management and enables customers to use each MetaFrame Access Suite license to its best advantage. Key customer benefits include: -- Reduction in Licensing Administration - The number of licensing interactions between Citrix and its customers may decrease significantly, resulting in lower IT administration costs for Citrix customers. By licensing a product once, Subscription Advantage customers will be entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: to use any upgrade released during their contract periods without contacting Citrix, except to download media. -- Enhanced License Management through a Web Interface - The Web-based user interface provides tools which comprehensively catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. license inventory, run reports to evaluate license usage and give alerts in the event of license and Subscription Advantage expiration EXPIRATION. Cessation; end. As, the expiration of, a lease, of a contract, or statute. 2. In general, the expiration of a contract puts an end to all the engagements of the parties, except to those which arise from the non- fulfillment of obligations created . Designed in cooperation with Macrovision, the Web Interface allows Citrix customers to proactively plan their license requirements and to monitor and manage license compliance without Citrix interaction. -- Single, Consistent Licensing for All Citrix Products - With a consistent licensing platform across Citrix products, MetaFrame Access Suite licensing will be manageable from a single point. -- Sharing Licenses across Server Farms - The new licensing systems allows MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 users to share licenses across server farms, eliminating the need to design farms around licensing, and allowing organizations to accelerate their return on investment. "This widespread use of Macrovision FLEXnet technology by one of the largest software publishers in the world further demonstrates Macrovision's leadership in pricing, packaging and protecting software," said Dan Stickel, general manager of Macrovision's Software Technologies Group. "Citrix joins a growing roster of well-respected vendors, including Adobe, Macromedia, Motorola, Cisco and others, implementing Macrovision technology for software licensing. As a vital component of Citrix access infrastructure, Macrovision FLEXnet will help optimize and strengthen the relationships between Citrix and its customers, and simplify licensing and administration throughout the software lifecycle." Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite is the easiest way for organizations to provide a secure, single point of access to enterprise applications and information on demand, while ensuring a consistent user experience anywhere, anytime, using any device, over any connection. Extending the world's most widely deployed presentation server, the Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite is access infrastructure for the on-demand enterprise. The suite centralizes access to applications and information and enables IT staffs to deliver, manage, monitor and measure enterprise resources on demand. Citrix customers are able to run IT as a corporate computing computing - computer utility, provisioning software as a service. This simplifies the complexity and reduces the costs of deploying and administering hundreds of heterogeneous applications and delivering them to workers on demand anywhere, anytime, to any device, over any connection. About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader in access infrastructure solutions and the most trusted name in secure access for enterprises and individuals. Nearly 50 million people in more than 120,000 organizations around the world use Citrix every day. Our software gives people secure and well-managed access to business information wherever it lives--on demand. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies, 99% of the Fortune 500, and 92% of the Fortune Global 500. Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate canal system, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city's population is described as metropolitan, where diverse culture is commonplace. According to 2006 U.S. , Citrix has offices in 22 countries, and more than 7,000 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. For more information visit http://www.citrix.com. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. 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 the company's business involving the company's products, their development and distribution, economic and competitive factors and the company's key strategic relationships 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 contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. About Macrovision Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN) is the market leader in electronic licensing, copy protection, 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. Analysts recognize Macrovision as the clear market leader, and it's estimated that the company sells more software-based licensing solutions than all its competitors combined. Macrovision FLEXnet, the world's first universal licensing platform, enables customers to easily price, package and protect their software. More than 3000 software publishers have shipped FLEXenabled(TM) software, and hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies use Macrovision technologies to better manage their 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. . The company holds over 700 software licensing and DRM patents worldwide and has been ranked by Business 2.0 as one of the top 100 Tech Companies for two consecutive years. 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. , Macrovision has international offices in London, Frankfurt, Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest , Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and Seoul. More information about the Macrovision can be found at www.macrovision.com. For Macrovision Investors This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. A number of factors could cause Macrovision's actual results to differ from anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such factors are addressed in Macrovision's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov). Macrovision assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. Citrix(R) and MetaFrame(R) are registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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