5 November 2002 - Today at Citrix iForum(tm) 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(tm). The combination of these two technologies will be designed to enable enterprise organisations 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(tm), UNIX® or Windows® application deployed through MetaFrame application server software without any code re-writes. Working in conjunction with MetaFrame, NFuse Classic provides organisations 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 organisation's disparate systems.
BEA WebLogic Portal can simplify, personalise 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(tm), 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 organisations 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 organisations 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 customisation."
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 organisations 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.