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Citrix a été fondé en 1989 par un ancien développeur de chez IBM Ed Iacobucci. Citrix était initialement nommé Citrus, mais a changé de nom après qu'une entreprise existante ait revendiqué les droits de marque. Le nom de Citrix est un amalgame de Citrus et UNIX.
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Le premier produit de Citrix® a été Citrix MULTIUSER (il est possible de consulter un test du produit sur http://207.22.26.166/archive/citrixFirstImpression.html), qui était basé sur OS/2. Citrix a obtenu la licence du code source d'OS/2 de Microsoft, en passant outre IBM.
Citrix espère capter une partie du marché UNIX en rendant facile à déployer des applications texte OS/2.
Le produit n'a pas tout à fait fonctionné sur le marché, de sorte que Citrix a dû ajuster son business plan.
Citrix a, dès lors, consacré toutes ses ressources en essayant d'identifier les clients potentiels. Enfin Citrix lance WinView, son premier produit à succès, introduit en 1993.
WinView addressed many customer concerns and saved the nearly bankrupted Citrix by providing remote access to DOS and Windows 3.1 applications on a multi-user platform. Citrix obtained a license to all of the source code of Microsoft's Windows NT 3.51, and developed it into a multi-user system which they began to sell in 1995 as WinFrame.
From there negotiations led to Microsoft agreeing to license Citrix technology for Windows NT Server 4.0, resulting in Windows Terminal Server Edition. Citrix was boxed in; if it could not release WinFrame 2.0 based on the NT 4.0 source license, there was no future for the company in this niche. Citrix agreed not to ship a competing product but retained “enterprise-level functionality”, which it could sell as an extension to Microsoft's products. This add-on was initially sold under the name MetaFrame. This complementary relationship continued into the Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 eras, with Citrix offering MetaFrame XP and Presentation Server. The core technology that Microsoft did not buy was the ICA protocol. Microsoft bought another company to provide the backbone of the RDP protocol that they currently use.
Création de Citrix et introduction de Citrix ICA
Enregistré en tant que compagnie dans le Delaware en avril.
Edward Iacobucci (fondateur) installe le premier bureau à Richardson au Texas.
Microsoft attribue à une licence OS/2® à Citrix. Première levée de fonds d'un montant de 3 millions de dollars (1$ l'action)
Transfert des bureaux à Coral Springs en Floride.
Les 5 premiers ingénieurs sont recrutés.
18 Employés.
Citrix livre son premier produit Citrix Multi-User.
Troisièmle levée de capitaux pour 5 millions de dollars
Bénéfices : 300 000 dollars.
Environ 40 employés.
Accord de licence avec Microsoft pour Windows NT Server.
Lancement de Citrix multi-user V.2.0.
Accord d'accès aux applications de Novell
Network software support service nommé A+ Server Series, compatible Netware.
650 revendeurs signent avec Citrix.
Bénéfices : 1.8 millions de dollars.
Environ 50 employés.
Lancement de WinView for Networks
Lancement de WinView v.2.2
Tech-Data devient le premier distributeur national.
Lancement du programme de Revendeurs habilités.
Bénéfices : 5 millions de dollars.
Environ 65 employés.
5ème anniversaire
Lancement de WinView v.2.3 et TCP/IP for WinView
Internet initiative with FTP software Networld + Interop: Best of Show for WinView 2.3
Nommé à the Industry 100 (Soft*letter)
Bénéfices : 10 millions de dollars.
Environ 65 employés.
Lancement de Citrix WinFrame et du concept de Windows Based Terminal
Le 8 décembre, mise sur le marché boursier à 15 dollars, l'action est cotée à 30 dollars à la fin de la première journée
Tektronix et Wyse deviennent Citrix OEMs
Citrix nomminé leader du marché de l'informatique de mise à disposition distante (GartnerGroup)
Bénéfices : 14.5 millions de dollars.
Environ 80 employés.
Extension de la famille WinFrame avec WinFrame/Access, WinFrame/Enterprise.
Ingram-Micro devient distributeur.
Lancement du programme CSN channel(Citrix Solutions NetworkTM).
Citrix ICA agreements with Microsoft (for Internet Explorer) and Sun Microsystems
Inc. 100: Citrix ranked #18
Capitalisation boursière : 1.1 milliard de dollars.
Bénéfices : 44 millions de dollars.
Environ 146 employés.
Citrix ouvre son nouveau siège à Fort Lauderdale en Floride. Citrix et Microsoft annoncent un partenariat de marketing, développement et licenses autour de MultiWin de 175 millions de dollars.
Ouverture de la nouvelle direction générale à Fort Lauderdale en Floride.
Finalisation de l'aquisition de Datapac ; ce premier rachat permet de s'implanter en zone Pacifique.
Capitalisation boursière : 2.2 milliards de dollars.
Bénéfices : 123.9 millions de dollars.
Environ 300 employés.
Deloitte & Touche named Citrix one of “Nation’s Fastest Growing Technology Companies”
Citrix split three-for-two
Citrix named to Standard & Poor’s MidCap 400 Index
Citrix ICA surpassed 2 million concurrent ports
Citrix lance Citrix MetaFrame application server.
Le département Development ouvre à Salt Lake City dans l'état d'Utah et à Redmond dans l'état de Washington.
Citrix hosted “Thinergy”, the first global conference on server-based computing
Citrix recognized as top growth company by Soft*Letter 100
Citrix Board of Directors effected two-for-one stock split
Le rachat d'Insignia permet l'établissement de Citrix en Angleterre à High Wycombe.
APM acquisition completed; became Citrix’s UK Cambridge based development site
Capitalisation boursière : 4.428 milliards de dollars.
Bénéfices : 248.6 millions de dollars.
Environ 600 employés.
Création de la division Internet Business Unit - Citrix iBusiness
Added to Standard & Poor’s 500 Index
Citrix stock split two-for-one
FORTUNE magazine ranked Citrix in top five of 100 fastest-growing companies
Forbes ASAP: named Citrix “America’s Most Dynamic Software Company” Included in FORTUNE’s inaugural e-50 index
Citrix MetaFrame et Citrix WinFrame® récompensés comme produits de l'année par Windows NT Magazine (Australie).
Lancement de Citrix VideoFrame™ 1.0
Acquisition de ViewSoft, Inc. for Web-based application deployment/management
Fondation du consortium Application Service Provider ( ASP) First 14 members of Citrix iBusiness ASP program join Le Citrix Developer Network (CDN) rassemble 3 000 membres en 90 jours.
17 trimestres consécutifs de croissance.
Des bureaux en dans les états de Floride, Utah, Washington, en Australie, Danemark, Angleterre, France, Allemagne, Irlande, Italie, Japon, Pays-bas et Suisse.
Brevets plus de 20 enregistrés aux Etats-Unis.
Retour sur investissement boursier : 1 425% par action entre Décembre 1995 et Mars 1999
Capitalisation boursière de 11 milliards de dollars.
Bénéfices : 403.3 millions de dollars.
Environ 1 000 employés.
Citrix ouvre une filiale en Inde. Lancement de Citrix NFuse Classic application portal software et Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 for Windows 2000 Server
Announcement of subsidiary in India - Citrix Software Limited
Distribution agreement with Beijing Stone Investment Co. for China market
Aquisition of Innovex Group to deliver consulting services to channel partners/customers
Launch of Citrix NFuse Classic application portal software; launch of Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 for Windows 2000 Server; licensing agreements for NFuse Classic signed by corporate portal solution providers: Brio, Corporate Yahoo!, Epicentric, Plumtree, Sequoia, TopTier, Viador
Launch of Citrix MetaFrame for the Solaris Operating Environment, MetaFrame for the AIX® Operating System and MetaFrame for the HP-UX® Operating System
Introduction of Citrix Extranet, a VPN solution and the latest addition to Citrix Management Services products
Lancement de Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 Feature Release 1, the first feature release under the new Citrix modular product delivery system
Citrix iForum™ 2000 conference sold out with 3,200 attendees, 60 percent more than 1999
Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA®) adopted by 24 million users worldwide; more than six million concurrent user license
Citrix iBusiness ASP Program passes the 100-member mark; Traver Gruen-Kennedy re-elected chairman of the ASP Industry Consortium Training milestones: 18,000 Citrix administrators certified; 250 Citrix Authorized Learning Centers worldwide
MetaFrame named best ASP enabling technology by Open Systems Advisors (Crossroads 2000 A-List Award) BusinessWeek ranked Citrix 29th out of 100 “Hot Growth Companies” and 6th best performing company in BusinessWeek 50, March 27th edition
Citrix named #27 in FORTUNE’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list
Citrix named to Deloitte & Touche “Fast 500” for 4th consecutive year
Stock split two-for-one
Bénéfices : 470.4 millions de dollars.
Environ 1 350 employés.
Microsoft et EMC rejoignent Citrix Business Alliance. Lancement de Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows, de Release 1 for MetaFrame XP and MetaFrame for UNIX et de Citrix Secure Gateway
Microsoft and EMC joined Citrix Business Alliance™
Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA®) adopted by 35 million users worldwide; more than nine million concurrent user licenses
95 percent of Financial Times FT 100 use Citrix
Acquisition de Sequoia Software to extend virtual workplace vision
Lancement de Citrix MetaFrame XP™ pour Windows
Lancement de Feature Release 1 for MetaFrame XP et MetaFrame for UNIX®
Lancement de Citrix Secure Gateway
Citrix NFuse software named the best corporate portal product by Open Systems Advisors (Crossroads A-List Award)
Citrix won CMP XChange Xcellence Award for “Best Web Program/Strategy”
Citrix MetaFrame XP and NFuse won Excellence in Technology award at Gartner’s Midsize Enterprise Summit
Citrix won “Best of Breed 2001” award from Computerweek South Africa
Bénéfices : 591.6 millions de dollars.
Environ 1 900 employés.
Citrix® and Microsoft® signed agreement giving Citrix access to key Windows® server operating systems code
Citrix nommé Microsoft Global Gold Certified Partner
Citrix établit le Center of Excellence for SAP à Walldorf en Allemagne.
Lancement de Citrix MetaFrame XP™ FR 2
Lancement de Citrix NFuse® Elite access portal server
Citrix ouvre des bureaux en Malaisie et en Corée
Citrix et IBM agree to collaborate on server consolidation solutions
95 percent of Fortune 500 use Citrix; 100 of Fortune 100 use Citrix
Citrix won 2002 Pinnacle Technology Award as best established technology company in Florida
Citrix won Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award for vision of virtual workplace
Citrix named to KM World Magazine’s “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management”
Environ 1 600 employés.
Citrix rachète Experticity pour créer la suite Goto.
Introduction de la certification Citrix Certified Integration Architect™.
Citrix® MetaFrame® Access Suite won the VARBusiness Tech Innovators Choice Award in the Infrastructure category
Microsoft selected Citrix as its first ever Global Independent Software Vendor Partner of the Year
Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite won the Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award for Best Manufacturing Solution
Lancement de Citrix Password Manager
Citrix lance sa première campagne publicitaire mondiale.
Citrix® MetaFrame® Conferencing Manager won Windows & .NET Magazine’s “Best of Show” Award at Tech Ed 2003
SAP customers gave Citrix a Member’s Choice Top 25 Gold Star Award for greatest positive impact on SAP deployments
Citrix supported the Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 launch as a Platinum sponsor
Lancement de Citrix® MetaFrame XP™ Presentation Server, Feature Release 3
Lancement de Citrix MetaFrame® Conferencing Manager
Citrix was awarded a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule, allowing Federal agencies to purchase Citrix solutions
Citrix announced the MetaFrame Access Suite of products and MetaFrame Secure Access Manager, the first product in the suite
MetaFrame software a 50 millions d'utilisateurs tout autour du monde.
Deux nouveaux membres sont élus au comité de direction de Citrix : Tom Bogan, president et COO de Rational Software, et Gary Morin, vice-président executif et CFO de Lexmark International
Citrix won 2003 Crossroads A-List Award for NFuse® Elite as best portal for the mid-sized enterprise
Bénéfices : 588.6 millions de dollars.
Environ 1 900 employés.
Aquisition d'Expertcity et Net6
Citrix signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft Corporation enabling Citrix to deliver more comprehensive access solutions on the Windows® platform and improve the access capabilities available in forthcoming version of Windows Server™ codenamed “Longhorn”
Citrix GoToMyPC® won a Readers’ Choice Award from Windows IT Pro for Best Remote Control Product
PC World named Citrix GoToMyPC to “Best of 2004” product list
Citrix won two awards at Gartner’s EnterpriseVision 2004 event: Best Alliance Strategy and Best Enterprise Vendor
Lancement de Citrix® MetaFrame® Presentation Server v3.0 et Citrix® MetaFrame® Secure Access Manager 2.2
Citrix GoToMyPC wins PC Magazine, CNET and PC World Awards
Citrix GoToAssist™ wins TMC Labs and Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine Awards
Citrix GoToMeeting™ previews at IDG’s DEMO event with the power to transform online meetings
Introduction de Citrix accessPARTNER Network
Bénéfices : 741 millions de dollars.
Environ 2 550 employés.
Citrix rachète NetScaler.
Announced Citrix Access Essentials™, Citrix’s first product specifically developed, packaged and priced for small and midsized businesses
Announced Citrix Access Suite™ 4.0 which includes Citrix Presentation Server™ 4.0, Citrix Password Manager™ 4.0 and the new Citrix Access Gateway™ 4.0, an SSL VPN appliance Citrix GoToMeeting™ Corporate named Editors’ Choice in Web Conferencing by PC Magazine
CRN named two Citrix executives “Channel Chiefs”
Citrix appointe de nouveaux directeurs à son comité : Murray Demo, EVP et CFO d'Adobe Systems et Godfrey Sullivan, president et CEO d'Hyperion Solutions Corp.
CEO Mark Templeton awarded Excalibur Award for excellence in business and community leadership
Presentation Server won Editor’s Choice Award from Network Computing
Net revenues of $909 million
Citrix Access Gateway appliance nommé produit de l'année par SearchNetworking
Internet Telephony’s Product of the Year Awards, 2005: Application Gateway was chosen as a Product of the Year
Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the Year
Acquisition de Teros, Inc.
Citrix positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the most recent Gartner Inc. Application Delivery Products Magic Quadrant Report
Citrix positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “visionary” quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for SSL VPN, North America, 3Q05” report Environ 2 950 employés.
Extension de la famille Access Gateway SSL VPN avec Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition. Citrix rachète Reflectent et Ardence.
Lancement de la série WANScaler 8000.
Citrix réalise un CA de 1,1 milliard de dollars de CA.
Acquisition de Reflectent Software, Inc.
Lancement de Citrix® GoToMyPC® 5
Citrix announced an extension of its Access Gateway SSL VPN product line with the new Citrix Access Gateway™ Enterprise Edition Citrix announced the release of the Citrix® NetScaler® Application Firewall Standard Edition, a new version of Web application firewall designed specifically for midsized enterprises and business units within large companies
Lancement de Citrix® GoToWebinar™; the first do-it-yourself affordable way for anyone to conduct online events
Acquisition d'Orbital Data Corp.
Microsoft and Citrix expand partnership to improve application access and address branch office complexity
Lancement de Citrix® WANScaler™ 8000 series of wide area network optimization solutions
Bénéfices : 1.134 billion de dollars.
Environ 3 500 employés.
Lancement de GoToMyPC 6, Presentation Server 4.5 et Desktop Server 1.0.
Achat de Xensource. Nouvelle mouture Access Platinium.
Acquisition de QuickTree.
Acquisition de XenSource, Inc.
Acquisition d'Ardence Inc.
Lancement de Citrix NetScaler™ 8.0
Lancement de Citrix® GoToMyPC® 6
Lancement de Citrix Presentation Server™ 4.5
Lancement de Citrix Desktop Server™ 1.0 (previously code-named Project Trinity)
Citrix ouvre les bureaux dans la Silicon Valley à Santa Clara en Californie.
Citrix unveils industry’s first comprehensive end-to-end Application Delivery Infrastructure
Environ 4 600 employés.
Bénéfices : 1.4 billions de dollars.
Expanded desktop and server virtualization alliance with Microsoft Corp.
Lancement de Citrix NetScaler MPX
Announced Citrix XenServer™ Platinum Edition with the capability to dynamically provision both virtual and physical servers
Announced Workflow Studio to orchestrate communications across multiple Citrix products and third party solutions
Announced new name for – XenApp — for Citrix’s popular application virtualization product, Presentation Server; and introduce new product family brand – Citrix Delivery Center™ — an overarching brand for Citrix’s application delivery infrastructure
Lancement de XenApp v5.0 pour Windows 2008
Environ 4 900 employés.
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