Citrix Announces First North American and European NFuse® Elite Customers

“We’re very excited about the customer interest we are seeing in NFuse Elite,” said John Burris, senior vice president of worldwide sales and services for Citrix. “Early sales, spurred by the efforts of our Fast Track Channel partners, appear to be indicative of the market we identified for access portals. We are pleased that our customers are adopting our vision of the virtual workplace by acquiring NFuse Elite.”

Air Liquide North America’s current Citrix implementation supports 5,000 employees, providing access to a range of applications including Oracle 10.7 SmartClient ERP application, Maximo, a maintenance application, Tivoli Netview, and Labware LIMS. Like many Citrix customers, Air Liquide has deployed Citrix MetaFrame® with NFuse Classic and Citrix Secure Gateway to give users secure Internet-based access to client-server applications. Now, working in conjunction with ThinApse, a Citrix Business Alliance™ (CBA) Platinum partner based in Vancouver, the company is rolling out an NFuse Elite access portal after evaluating the technology preview earlier this spring.

“Air Liquide personnel from our 220 North American facilities get secure application access from any Web connection using Citrix MetaFrame and NFuse Classic,” said Louis Gilbert, director of data center operations for Air Liquide. “With our initial 500-seat deployment of NFuse Elite, we’ll be building upon our investment in Citrix technology, providing our users with data-driven alerts and access to the applications and information sources they need to be more productive.” Alstom is a global specialist in energy and transport infrastructure with a strong track record in technology innovation. The company is a long-time user of Citrix technologies to provide IT services to 60,000 users in 15 major countries, including Microsoft® Office, SAP, Project 2000, Visio2000 and MetaPhase. Working with Vistorm, a Citrix Solutions Network™ (CSN) Platinum Partner to implement NFuse Elite, Alstom is looking to improve the quality of IT services it provides to its staff, customers and suppliers around the world.

“We have been extremely pleased with what we have achieved so far using Citrix' NFuse Elite technology preview,” commented Rob Jones, IT Services Development Director, UK at Alstom ITC. “As an internal IT services provider, we appreciate being able to offer relevant, personalized content to anybody within the organization. Working with Vistorm, it has taken us weeks rather than months to integrate role-based information with our existing MetaFrame line of business applications into a single Web-based point of access. This, in turn, means that we are able to provide our employees with increased flexibility and mobility, helping to improve efficiency and overall productivity.”

Crompton Corporation, a global producer and marketer of polymer products and specialty chemicals, is working with Execute, a CSN Gold Partner, to deploy a virtual workplace based on Citrix NFuse Elite. Crompton’s new access portal will make available personalized sets of applications and content to over 1500 employees - whether they’re working from the field, at home, or in one of the company’s 30 European locations. With NFuse Elite, Crompton personnel will save time and effort by having secure anytime, anywhere access to their core business applications in their own language, including almost all SAP modules, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office, and a field-trial application that will be deployed over a wireless GPRS network to HP iPAQs.

“Having been a long time user of Citrix and currently implementing MetaFrame XPe, we’ve been working towards giving our employees secure Internet access to their applications using Citrix NFuse Classic, so we knew that the Citrix model was right for our needs,” said Warren Jones, IT Manager, Europe, Crompton Corporation. “When Execute showed us NFuse Elite, we realized it would drastically reduce the time and cost of building and maintaining a secure, personalized access portal that would be easy for our staff to use - wherever they work.”

New York-based women’s fashion and home accessories design firm, The Echo Design Group became the first Citrix NFuse Elite customer on June 3, 2002, the day the product launched. The firm is working with CBA Platinum Partner DataLan to deploy an access portal that will give its outside sales agents personalized access to the specific information and applications they need to effectively represent the company. It will also provide the firm’s overseas vendor partners with immediate access to product design images and specifications, saving shipping costs and accelerating the production process. “Echo Design has already achieved a great deal of success working with Citrix and DataLan on our existing NFuse Classic portal,” said Tom Paluge, IT Network Manager for The Echo Design Group. “With NFuse Elite, we’ll take our business to the next level, delivering personalized and secure access to information our agents and partners need to work more efficiently and effectively with Echo Design—driving even greater success for our firm.” As architects, engineers and planners, Baltimore-based Whitney, Bailey, Cox and Magnani, LLC wanted to make it easier for the firm’s project teams to access and share information across four regional offices. After being introduced to NFuse Elite by CBA Platinum partner, Emergent OnLine, Margaret Lynch, the firm’s Vice President of Information Technology, recognized that an access portal was what the firm needed. “Before we selected NFuse Elite, we looked at several other portal products, however, none offered the same tight integration with our existing Citrix infrastructure, ease of implementation and customization, and functionality we’re getting with NFuse Elite,” noted Lynch. “With NFuse Elite, we’ll be providing our personnel with personalized workspaces that we envision will improve communication and project coordination across our firm – creating efficiencies and competitive advantage.”

Citrix NFuse Elite is the simple, powerful access portal server that bridges the client/server and Web worlds, helping ensure access to the applications and information users need to do their jobs. Citrix NFuse Elite incorporates features of Citrix NFuse Classic to enable Web-based access to UNIX®, Windows® and Java™ applications running on Citrix MetaFrame servers. It extends beyond client/server systems, providing access to Web-based applications, internally hosted and syndicated Web content, and other services. With a feature set that emphasizes access, security and straightforward administration, Citrix NFuse Elite offers substantial benefits to administrators and users alike.

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 more than 7,000 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 regarding new products, product marketing, outlook for the company’s products, 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, acceptance of the company's MetaFrame and NFuse product line; 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; increased competition, including potential competition from Microsoft and other companies; the Company’s significant reliance on independent distributors and resellers for the marketing and distribution of its products; the results of the company's new licensing programs; changes in the company's pricing policies or those of its competitors, including Microsoft; the costs and risks of developing, acquiring, or integrating new technologies or enhancements to existing products; the risks associated with third party licensing arrangements; the company's reliance upon its strategic relationships with Microsoft and other strategic partners; management of growth and higher operating expenses; the possibility of undetected software errors; dependence on proprietary technology; charges in the event of the impairment of assets; the maintenance of the company's growth rate; as well as risks of downturns in economic conditions generally, and in the software industry specifically, 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. ### Citrix®, MetaFrame®, NFuse®, MetaFrame XP™, Citrix Solutions Network™ and Citrix Business Alliance™ are registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.  UNIX® is a registered trademark of The Open Group 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.

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