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Citrix extends tremendous gratitude
to its customers, partners and employees
for twenty years of success.
From our humble beginnings as a small start-up,
we’ve always envisioned a different and simpler way of
computing. Our goal was to centralize applications,
virtualize them, and optimize their delivery over any
connection available.
This core thinking continues to be the essence of our
vision for application delivery, and how we imagine
a world where people can work or play from anywhere.
We owe our growth to the hard work and support
of our ecosystem of partners and to the more than
230,000 customers who count on Citrix to help them
be more efficient, agile and successful. We owe our
growth to a remarkable team of Citrites who remain
enthusiastically committed to our vision and to the
success of our customers.
Please join us as we reflect fondly on our memories
and recall the many important milestones achieved
in our history.
20
1989 - 1 9 9 0
Citrix began life as
Citrus Systems
Launched Citrix MetaFrame 1.8
for Windows 2000 Server
Over 400 million people connected
to the Internet worldwide
Bill Gates relinquished
CEO title to Steve Ballmer
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Distribution agreement
with Beijing Stone Investment
Co. for China market
Y2K fears proved to be unfounded
20
2001
Launched Citrix MetaFrame
XP for Windows
Microsoft and EMC joined
Citrix Business Alliance
Citrix Independent
Computing Architecture (ICA)
adopted by 35 million users
worldwide; over nine million
concurrent user licenses
Won “Best of Breed 2001”
award from Computerweek
South Africa
ComputerWeek
Won Excellence in
Technology award at Gartner’s
Midsize Enterprise Summit
for Citrix MetaFrame XP
and NFuse
Launched Citrix
Secure Gateway
Net revenue
neared $600M
The PC turned 20
Wikipedia formally began
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Won 2001 Crossroads award
Apple launched the iPod
personal music player
20
2002
Signed agreement with
Microsoft, giving Citrix
access to key Windows server
operating systems code
Launched Citrix NFuse Elite
access portal server
Named Microsoft Global
Gold Certified Partner
Citrix used by 95% of
Fortune 500 and
100% of Fortune 100
Opened offices in
Malaysia and Korea
Established Center
of Excellence for SAP
in Walldorf, Germany
Employee count
topped 1,600
Named on KM World
Magazine’s “100 Companies
that Matter in Knowledge
Management”
Agreed to collaborate
with IBM on server
consolidation solutions
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Friendster, the social
networking site, was founded
HP merged with Compaq
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Nokia launched first 3G phone
20
2003
Selected by Microsoft as first-ever
Global Independent Software
Vendor (ISV) Partner of the Year
Signed definitive agreement
to acquire Expertcity, Inc.
expertcity
Launched Citrix MetaFrame
XP Presentation Server,
Feature Release 3
®
Like being there.
Launched Citrix MetaFrame
Password Manager
Launched first global
advertising and
branding campaign
Announced MetaFrame
Access Suite of products
and MetaFrame
Secure Access Manager
Skype, a peer-to-peer Internet
telephony network, was founded
Received Member’s Choice
Top 25 Gold Star Award from
SAP customers for greatest positive
impact on SAP deployments
IBM announced the eServer zSeries 990,
the world’s most sophisticated server
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The social and professional networking
site, LinkedIn, was launched
20
2004
Won PC Magazine,
CNET and PC World awards
for Citrix GoToMyPC
Signed a five-year agreement
with Microsoft Corporation to
deliver comprehensive access
solutions on Windows platform
Citrix GoToMyPC named
on “Best of 2004” product
list by PC World
Completed Net6 Inc.
acquisition
2003 Global
2005
ISV Partner of
the Year
WINNER
Previewed Citrix
GoToMeeting
at IDG’s DEMO event
Net revenue
approached $750M
Won Best Alliance Strategy
and Best Enterprise Vendor
at Gartner’s EnterpriseVision
The term “Podcast” emerged
Employee count
exceeded 2,500
Novell released the
Linux-based enterprise desktop
Novell Linux Desktop v9
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“Web 2.0” coined by
Dale Dougherty
20
2005
Completed NetScaler Inc.
acquisition
Named Microsoft Global ISV
Partner of the Year
Awarded Editors’ Choice in Web
Conferencing by PC Magazine for
Citrix GoToMeeting Corporate
Completed Teros, Inc.
acquisition
Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant
of Gartner Inc. Application Delivery
Products Magic Quadrant Report
CEO Mark Templeton won the
2005 Excalibur Award for
excellence in business and
community leadership
Citrix Presentation Server
won Editor’s Choice award
from Network Computing
Announced Citrix Access Suite 4.0
+
Lenovo acquired the
PC division of IBM
YouTube was founded and launched
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Veritas and Symantec merged,
creating the largest
software industry merger to date
20
2006
Launched Citrix
GoToMyPC 5
Completed Reflectent
Software, Inc. acquisition
Completed Orbital
Data Corp. acquisition
Announced Citrix Access
Gateway Enterprise Edition,
an extension of the Access
Gateway SSL VPN product line
Launched Citrix WANScaler
8000 series of wide area network
optimization solutions
Released Citrix
NetScaler Application Firewall
Standard Edition
Employee count
hit 3,500
Surpassed $1B
net revenue goal
Toshiba released the first HD DVD
player in a computer
Launched Citrix GoToWebinar,
the first DIY affordable solution
for conducting online events
Intel estimated there were one billion
connected PCs worldwide
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The Twitter social networking and
microblogging service was founded
20
2007
Launched Citrix
Presentation Server 4.5 and
all-new Platinum Edition
Net revenue
grew to $1.4B
Completed XenSource, Inc.
acquisition
Completed Ardence Inc.
acquisition
Launched Citrix GoToMyPC 6
Unveiled industry’s
first comprehensive
end-to-end Application
Delivery Infrastructure
Employee count
reached 4,600
Launched Citrix NetScaler 8.0
and new Citrix NetScaler
Platinum Edition
Apple introduced the iPhone to
the public at Macworld
Microsoft released Windows Vista
and Office 2007
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Opened Silicon Valley
headquarters in
Santa Clara, CA
The Amazon Kindle was
launched in the U.S.
20
2008
Launched Citrix NetScaler MPX
Citrix used by 100% of
Fortune 100 and
99% of Fortune Global 500
Announced XenApp,
the new name for Citrix
Presentation Server,
and launched XenApp 5
Announced Citrix XenServer
Platinum Edition
Expanded desktop and
server virtualization alliance
with Microsoft
Introduced Citrix Delivery
Center: new product
family brand for application
delivery infrastructure
Introduced Synergy:
Where Virtualization + Networking +
Application Delivery Meet
Citrix positioned in the
Leaders Quadrant of
the Gartner Inc. SSL VPN
Magic Quadrant Report
Launched Citrix
XenDesktop product line
Blu-ray won the HD player war
when HD DVD called it quits
The White House administration
began its first blog
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Citrix Systems won the
2008 Asia Pacific
Frost & Sullivan Product
Line Strategy award in
the Application Delivery
Controller market
ABC News and Facebook sponsored
the presidential primary debates
20
2009
Citrix XenDesktop 3 enhances
multimedia experience,
doubles scalability and adds
streamed desktop support
New Citrix XenServer release makes
enterprise-class, cloud-proven
virtualization free for everyone
Branch Repeater 5 delivers
“high-definition experience”
for Citrix XenApp users with
HDX IntelliCache and HDX
Broadcast technologies
Citrix extends 20-year
partnership with Microsoft
into server virtualization
with “Project Encore”
Customers: more than
230,000
Citrix plans to produce a new class of
virtualization solutions that optimize the
delivery of applications and desktops to
millions of Intel Core2 and Centrino 2
processor-based devices, dramatically
reducing the cost of desktop management
HP Compaq Proliant Servers
turn 20 years old
Citrix Online unveils first
all-in-one screen recording
service ‘GoView’
Obama becomes the first president
with a smartphone