Here is the second instalment of “Glug…Glug..Glug…”. In this section of the story, things are looking fairly bleak as the Citrix engineers struggle to produce things quickly in the hopes of selling more product to the market. Most of this…
There is a story that was written by Ed Janeczek called “glug…glug…glug…” in the early days of Citrix. From the date of the email, it would have been written about 4 years after the company was founded. I have seen…
Since we were such a small company and it was so important to hire the right people, we had a very strict hiring procedure. Instead of having HR doing all the recruiting and hiring, the engineering group did it themselves.…
When Citrix was founded in 1989, it immediately had two goals in mind. The first was to build a multiuser version of OS/2. The second was to go public so that the stock options would be worth real money and…
Brian Madden has been busy lately during interviews with key Citrix employees. His latest interview is with CEO Mark Templeton. The podcast interview is located here at Brian Madden’s web site. Most of you have already heard of this interview…
There is someone else within Citrix that probably loves Citrix history as much as I do. His name is Brad Pedersen and he has the rare right to say that he has been there since the beginning of Citrix in…
It is a right of Citrix employees to collect Citrix shirts. In the beginning, it is interesting. Then, it starts to become a bit much. I suppose that most technology companies see shirts as an easy way to spread their…
Every company has its own unique culture. As the years progress, some of the rituals grow large but the meaning is often lost. This is not much different from any other cultural exchange that exists in the broader scope of…
It is common knowledge among programmers that the movie OfficeSpace is just a bit too close to the truth. The cubicles are small, the programmers are fidgety, and the management is… well, just management. During my time at IBM it…
The agreement with Microsoft affirmed Citrix’s and Microsoft’s commitment to building a multiuser NT system in 1992. Looking back, this was a very pivotal decision for both companies to work together on the NT code base. At the time, Citrix…
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