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Second Citrix Building in Coral Springs

I’ve reported about 210 University, Coral Springs and even included pictures in a previous post. However, I have never showed you the view from space using Google Earth. Click this image to fully expand the view. Note that Citrix left

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Origins of Published Applications

Back in 1996, not long after our first release of WinFrame, Citrix received some feedback that there was a need for more security.  Specifically, it was considered dangerous to specify any executable from the client side to be run on

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Citrix Employee Events

Citrix has always been very generous with giving its employees holidays. Even in the earliest days, Citrix sponsored company holidays to places like Key West. Perhaps it was a fairly low key celebration but the fact that the company was

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Citrix Acquisition – NetScaler 2005

Citrix acquired NetScaler in June 2005. For $300 million dollars, Citrix bought the company that specializes in improving the performance of applications across remote networks. The NetScaler acquisition filled a gap related to guaranteeing decent throughput between the users and

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Citrix Revenue Chart 1989-2006

Here is a chart of Citrix revenue from 1989 to 2006 since I couldn’t find one on the web. Maybe some pay service has this kind of charting but I could not find it.The data was already tucked away in

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Another Angle on 1997 Citrix/Microsoft

Found this while looking for other things on the net. It’s an article from the South Florida “The Business Journal”. The article was intended to highlight Citrix’s commitment to South Florida but also managed to capture elements of the dilemma

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Citrix Acquistion – Net6

Net6 was a company based out of San Jose, California that Citrix acquired in November 2004. I was part of the due diligence team that was sent to analyse the company from a technical point of view. This is a

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Microsoft Press Release 1997 – Joint Development Agreement

I was searching the web for some old Citrix pictures and came across this Microsoft press release from 1997.  Given the circumstances of what happened, this is certainly positive spin.  It is also interesting that Prologue is mentioned in the

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Microsoft and Citrix Founding Teams

I couldn’t resist this. I’ve recently found the original Microsoft team photo on Wikipedia and thought it would be fun to compare the two companies pictures. Microsoft 1978 Citrix 1989 Eleven years can make a big difference in fashion and

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Citrix on Wikipedia

I guess this is fairly obvious to state but there is some information about Citrix on Wikipedia. It is probably not as comprehensive as I would like but it does capture the basics of what has happened since Citrix started.

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