Citrix and SiteScape Form Alliance to Give XPS Portal Customers Enhanced Collaboration Capabilities.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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2001 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) ), a global leader in application serving and 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 services, today announced an alliance with SiteScape, Inc., a leading provider of Web-based collaboration software See collaborative software. and services. The agreement benefits Citrix customers by giving them the ability to integrate SiteScape Enterprise Forum 6.0 collaboration software or WebWorkZone hosted service as an optional, plug-in component of Citrix(R) XPS (1) See XML Paper Specification. (2) A brand name for certain models of Inspiron laptops from Dell. (TM), the company's XML-pure portal software. In addition to the product integration, SiteScape has joined the Citrix Business Alliance(TM) (CBA See Capital Builder Account. ) Internet Solutions Program, expanding joint marketing and sales opportunities for both companies. "Citrix customers are turning to Citrix XPS to help them enhance business processes and communication with users across departments, business units, and value chains," 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, Business Development, for Citrix. "By partnering with SiteScape we're adding value to XPS, offering our customers a powerful and customizable collaboration platform An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. that can dramatically improve intra- and cross-enterprise communication and work processes." Citrix XPS portal software gives users a single, personalized and secure point of command and control over the applications, information and business processes they depend on to do their jobs and interact with peers within and beyond the enterprise, whether they are customers, suppliers or partners. SiteScape Forum 6.0, which allows users to host online discussions; share documents; chat; create and participate in workflows; schedule meetings using shared calendars; and send quick messages, is a powerful extension of XPS capabilities. SiteScape functionality will be accessed through an XPS Content Delivery Agent (CDA (1) (Compact Disc Audio) The compact disc file extension that is seen on the computer in Explorer or some other file manager. CDA files are actually pointers to the locations of the individual tracks on the CD medium. See CD-DA. ), an individual, easy-to-use Web-based application See Web application. that snaps directly into the users' homepage. "We've seen that the combination of collaboration and workflow capabilities within the portal is becoming increasingly important for the enterprise," said Richard M. Tahan, Jr., SiteScape's vice president of worldwide channel marketing. "SiteScape's collaboration software allows XPS customers to make faster, better decisions by allowing them to discuss and get input on the various information sources that XPS aggregates. In addition, Forum captures the decision-making process in perpetuity Of endless duration; not subject to termination. The phrase in perpetuity is often used in the grant of an Easement to a utility company. in perpetuity adj. forever, as in one's right to keep the profits from the land in perpetuity. , forming a knowledge base of tacit information." Tahan continued, "We're excited about our partnership with Citrix and share their enthusiasm for making our alliance a success." About SiteScape SiteScape is a leading provider of Web-based, business-to-business collaborative solutions, including software, support, and customization and hosting services. SiteScape's collaboration software and services provide an efficient and easy way to communicate, share resources, and collaborate between departments, organizations or business networks. SiteScape has a worldwide customer base of 1500 companies clustered in a wide variety of industries, including energy, construction, high tech, automotive, trade associations, education, health care, legal, and government. For more information about SiteScape, visit http://www.sitescape.com About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. is a global leader in application serving and portal software and services that provide personalized access to any application or information source -- whether Windows(R), 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) or Web-based -- through any device, over any connection. Companies worldwide use Citrix technologies to integrate applications, content and business processes into a pervasive digital environment -- a virtual workplace -- offering seamless connectivity and a consistent user experience across the Internet, intranets, extranets, WANs, LANs and wireless networks. Citrix solutions drive cost efficiency, productivity and enhanced e-business opportunities by enabling companies to leverage existing IT resources and extend personalized information access to employees, partners, customers and suppliers. Citrix products offer rapid, cost-effective deployment and include MetaFrame(R) application serving software, NFuse(TM) application portal software, XPS(TM) portal software, application management products, and Citrix 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 serving technology. The company markets its application serving products through a well-established reseller channel and sells its portal software products directly to customers to provide the level of customization they need. 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 and Poor's Noun 1. Standard and Poor's - a broadly based stock market index Standard and Poor's Index 500 Index. Citrix is headquartered 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. . 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 and portal software 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 an 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 derived 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 enhancement to existing products; the risks associated with third party licensing arrangements; the company's ability to successfully integrate and manage merged or acquired companies, including Sequoia Software Corporation; the company's ability to maintain or further develop Sequoia's customer and employee relationships following such merger or acquisition; 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; as well as risks of downturns in economic conditions generally, and in the software industry specifically, 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. Citrix(R), ICA(R), MetaFrame(R), NFuse(TM), XPS(TM)and Citrix Business Alliance(TM) are registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX(R) is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft(R), Windows(R), and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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