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Citrix Systems, Inc. Citrix Announces Citrix® NFuse® Classic Portlet for BEA WebLogic Portal Customers Gain Secure, Web-based Access to Windows®, UNIX® and Web Applications through Enterprise Information Portals ORLANDO, Fla. - November 5, 2002 - Today at Citrix iForum™ 2002 (www.citrixiforum.com), Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), a global leader in virtual workplace software and services, announced a licensing agreement with BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company. Through this agreement, Citrix and BEA will jointly market, demonstrate and distribute a portlet within BEA's Portal Solution Center to connect Citrix® NFuse® Classic portal software with BEA WebLogic Portal 7.0™. The combination of these two technologies will be designed to enable enterprise organizations to deliver existing client/server applications located on a Citrix MetaFrame® application server through enterprise information portals created with BEA WebLogic Portal. As a result, users will have central access to both Web content and business applications. NFuse Classic application portal software provides instant Web access to any Java™, UNIX® or Windows® application deployed through MetaFrame application server software without any code re-writes. Working in conjunction with MetaFrame, NFuse Classic provides organizations with greater manageability and lower costs through centralized application deployment and management. NFuse Classic is a core member of Citrix's access portal product family, which provides customers with secure, role-based access to applications and information aggregated into a Web portal from an organization's disparate systems. BEA WebLogic Portal can simplify, personalize and lower the cost of access to information, applications and business processes for enterprise, customer and partner portals. BEA WebLogic Portal is a cornerstone of the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform™, a unified, simplified and extensible platform built on open standards that support high-volume transactions, business process management, application integration and business collaboration within and across the enterprise. By leveraging the NFuse Classic portlet, BEA WebLogic Portal customers can take advantage of single sign-on capabilities and gain access to not only Web-enabled applications, but also client/server enterprise applications. "Enterprise organizations today need a full featured portal solution that can improve employee productivity and create more efficient business relationships," said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager, global software partners, BEA Systems. "NFuse Classic is designed to provide a valuable complement to BEA WebLogic Portal and enable us to directly connect users with the business applications critical to their daily business processes from a unified Web-based interface." "Through our development work with BEA on the NFuse Classic portlet, enterprise organizations can gain more comprehensive Web-based access to the applications and processes they need to conduct business," said Roger Rose, vice president of enterprise partner sales for Citrix. "Working with a leading enterprise software company like BEA, Citrix is able to provide the building blocks for enterprises to adapt and integrate client/server and legacy applications into their information portals without needing extensive application customization." The joint solution will be available at the end of the year and can be downloaded at the BEA Portal Solution Center at http://portalsolutions.bea.com. About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. is a global leader in virtual workplace software and services that provide access to applications, information, processes and people on any device, over any network, anywhere, anytime. Citrix makes today's digital office completely virtual - instead of having to go to your office, the office follows you. Working with the world's top industry, integration and consulting partners, Citrix delivers enterprise-ready solutions to business challenges including application deployment, remote office connectivity, workforce mobility and business continuity. More than 120,000 companies worldwide use Citrix Solutions for the Virtual Workplace to give users more mobility, give IT organizations more flexibility and reduce the cost of computing. Citrix offers two families of products that enable virtual access to information: Application Server software, including MetaFrame XP, MetaFrame for Windows and MetaFrame for UNIX; and Access Portal software, including NFuse Elite and NFuse Classic. The company markets its products through a well-established indirect channel comprising approximately 6,000 resellers, integrators and consultants. In fiscal 2001, the company had net revenues of $591.6 million. Citrix is traded on the Nasdaq Stock MarketSM under the symbol CTXS, and is part of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index. Citrix is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, please visit the Citrix Web site at http://www.citrix.com. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release, which are not strictly historical statements, including, without limitation, statements by management, the statements contained in Business Outlook concerning management's forecast of revenue, operating expenses and earnings per share, statements regarding NFuse Elite, management's plans, objectives and strategies, and management's assessment of market factors, constitute forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the success of the company's MetaFrame and NFuse software product lines; the company's product concentration and its ability to develop and commercialize new products and services; the company's success in expanding into new geographic and vertical markets; the company's ability to expand its core business in large enterprise accounts; the size, timing and recognition of revenue from significant orders and other revenue recognition changes; the company's reliance on independent distributors and resellers for the marketing and distribution of its products; the effects of inventory shifts held by distributors; increased competition, including potential competition from Microsoft and other companies; the results of the company's new licensing and channel programs, including Citrix Easy Licensing; changes in the company's pricing policies or those of its competitors, including Microsoft; the company's reliance upon its strategic relationships with Microsoft and other strategic partners; management of operations and operating expenses; charges in the event of the impairment of assets; the management of anticipated future growth; as well as risks of downturns in economic conditions generally, and the effects of a weak IT spending environment which has impacted the overall demand for software and related services, and other risks detailed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. - # # # - BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Workshop, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, and BEA eLink are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties. Citrix®, MetaFrame®, MetaFrame XP™, NFuse® and iForum™ are registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. BEA and BEA WebLogic Portal are trademarks or registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. UNIX® is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the U.S. and other countries. Java™ is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft®, Windows® and Windows NT® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |