Some of the oldest documents I have about Citrix come from my interview folder when I interviewed in December 1992. Essentially someone went and found the best brochures and documents of the time in the hopes of convincing interview candidates that Citrix…
As you may already know, Citrix has an internal program for gathering product ideas from employees. In a previous post, I asked for customers to submit ideas so that I could forward these ideas into the product ideas database. The…
Over the years, many of the original Citrix employees have left and found other jobs or ventures. Some of these people I have located again. Probably the most concentrated new venture I have found so far is mVisible. It is…
If you had told me in 1993 that in the year 2006 we would be a 3000 employee company with close to $1B in revenue, I don’t think I would have believed you. I would have especially disbelieved you the…
Networld Interop 1994 was a real sign that things were looking up for Citrix. This is where we won not only the Internet category but also the show category from McGraw Hill. The catalyst was being able to do TCP/IP…
As you might have guessed by now, I kept a lot of the material for Citrix between 1993 and 1997. I often wondered what I would do with it all and now there is finally a purpose. I was just…
I imagine that very few few people would remember what some of the early marketing slogans were. I only remember them because they were so bad. Between 1993 and 1995 we had someone running marketing before Mark came. He was…
Citrix didn’t win the Networking Software category (Microsoft did) but we were one of two finalists. I’ve included the original article where it mentions WinView and why it was selected. Also note all the names of the developers. Not everyone…
Recently at iForum, the Trinity project was announced. The concept was presented in the context of Dynamic Desktop Initiative. There seems to be a number of alternative names (VDI, DVI) but the basic concept is the same. Administrators want the…
As you may have heard, we have a project code-named Pictor. This project is derived from work done with Boeing to improve the responsiveness of OpenGL three dimensional drawing programs (CATIA). The Boeing/Citrix project (codenamed K2) was a large success…
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