Dufferin-Peel School Board Standardizes School District on Citrix MetaFrame.

Business Editors/High-Tech & Education Writers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2001

Deployment Key to Managing Budget Constraints and Maximizing

Existing Hardware Investment

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) today announced that the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (CDSB), located in Ontario, Canada, has begun the process of implementing Citrix(R) MetaFrame(TM) throughout its district of 19 secondary schools, comprising approximately 29,000 students and teachers. This is the first school board-wide technology implementation in the province's history.

Eventually supporting 5,000 concurrent users, the deployment will encompass several applications, and the district will be able to free up precious bandwidth and optimize performance for all users across its network. This implementation will allow teachers and eventually students to remotely access the applications they need at any time and from any location or device - helping them prepare work and complete assignments outside of what the typical school day allows.

As a provincially funded school district, the Dufferin-Peel CDSB has built its technology infrastructure in-part from GEM (Grant Eligible Microcomputer) grants, part of a government subsidized program aimed at assisting schools in the acquisition of technology. As a result, the district has amassed over 5,000 computers of varying classes and models. Without the resources to start from scratch on a technology refresh, deploying Citrix MetaFrame has enabled the district to utilize its current infrastructure, and still provide the best computing environment for teachers and staff - all while simplifying network administration.

"Our primary mission is to provide the best possible environment for our students, teachers and staff. Citrix MetaFrame has had a direct impact on our mission in that we are able to reduce the amount of time required to maintain our IT infrastructure and devote more time to fulfilling our educational and spiritual charter," said John Steele, Dufferin-Peel CDSB Coordinator for Organizational Projects in Business and Technology. "In addition, Citrix MetaFrame has been key to leveraging our existing hardware investments during a time when we've had to be extremely prudent with our spending. Despite the heterogeneous hardware environment, application access is flawless."

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(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(TM) application serving software, NFuse(TM) application portal software, XPS(TM) portal software, application management products, and Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA(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(SM) under the symbol CTXS, and is part of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index. Citrix is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, please visit the Citrix Web site at http://www.citrix.com.

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