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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Glug…Glug…Glug… Part 2

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

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Glug…Glug…Glug… Part 1

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

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Mythical Man-Month

Almost everyone has every heard of or read about the “mythical man-month”. Most agree with its premise. In its most distilled form, it means that there is no way to capture a unit of work that will be the same

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Original Interview Process

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.

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Citrix IPO 1995

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

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My Ancient IBM Memories

I’ve been working in the computer industry since 1986 when I first worked at IBM in Boca Raton as co-operative education student. I was lucky enough to work for IBM in 1982 in Tucson, Arizona during high school senior year

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