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The Bridge

One of the greatest strengths had from the original team was the ability to work with other companies without conflict. Citrix worked with a number of different vendors to pull together a complete solution. An early partner was Novell. In

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Citrix Trivia Quiz (1990)

In the earliest days of Citrix, Rich Andresen put together a joke quiz related to events at Citrix at that time. Citrix was less than a year old and was still struggling to find a market. Multiuser had not caught

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Citrix Engineering Photo 1994

This is Citrix Engineering as of 1994. Ed and Roger got in the picture for some reason. Must be good to hang out with the engineers. 🙂 Unlike the fifth anniversary photo, I can actually identify everyone in the picture.

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Citrix 5 Year Anniversary Photo (1994)

This was us on top of 210 University, Coral Springs in 1994. Someone had the idea that we could shot a good group photo on the roof for our Citrix Connection magazine (most likely Vicky Harris) and it did turn

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Citrix Wayback

On the Internet there is an amazing amount of information. Truly, that is an understatement. According to Wikipedia, there were approximately 11.5 billion pages in January 2005. That’s enough to give anyone a headache. It’s surprising that it is possible

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Citrix Microsoft Crisis 1997 – USA Today Article

The included article by Kevin Maney written in 1997 does a great job capturing the elements of what happened during the 1997 Microsoft/Citrix crisis. There is a real sense of urgency for survival. As I have said before, it should

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Glug…Glug…Glug… Part 6 (final)

Part 6 is actually the epilogue of the story. In 2002, Ed Janeczek announced that he was leaving. Mike Discavage decided to revive Glug…Glug…Glug… one last time to update the story up to 2002. Nothing had been written since 1995

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Glug…Glug…Glug… Part 5

The year was 1995 and Citrix was going public. EdJ has captured the emotion of time quite well. This part of our history was switching from focusing on WinView to focusing on WinFrame. It was easy to see that we

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Glug…Glug…Glug… Part 4

This section covers 1993. Ed Janeczek had to rewrite this part since it was lost in the email system for the original writing. I had forgotten that the other venture was named Fairway. We lost a few people to them.

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Glug…Glug…Glug… Part 3

This part of the story happens during the period of late 1992 to early 1993. This time is really the deciding factor to whether or not Citrix is going to survive. About the time that this was written by EdJ

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