FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - refreshed from June 26, 2000 - Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) today announced a licensing
agreement with Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) allowing Yahoo! to market and demonstrate Citrix® NFuse™ business
application integration technology to customers of Corporate Yahoo!™ (http://corporate.yahoo.com), a customized
enterprise information portal based on the widely adopted My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) interface. With Citrix
NFuse technology, available from Citrix, Corporate Yahoo! customers can benefit from integrating existing
server-based applications simply by clicking a link or icon. The agreement also includes joint enterprise marketing
and sales opportunities as well as channel development and education.
Corporate Yahoo! and Citrix NFuse technology will be showcased at PC Expo in New York's Javits Center, Citrix's
booth, number 3912, on June 27 through June 29, 2000.
"The convenience, efficiency and simplicity of accessing information via Corporate Yahoo! will improve the way
enterprises work and communicate," said Barry Davis, vice president of corporate alliances, Citrix. "Our
application-serving expertise, our NFuse application portal offering, and now our relationship with Yahoo! helps
position Citrix as a leader in the application portal space."
"Corporate Yahoo! helps Global 2000 companies enhance their corporate intranets and extranets by providing a
compelling service for accessing both corporate and personal information," said John Willcutts, vice president, Yahoo!
Enterprise Services. "Citrix NFuse technology, in conjunction with Corporate Yahoo!, helps to provide personalized,
managed application delivery to the browser."
Citrix NFuse is an application portal product that enables Windows® and UNIX® applications running on a Citrix
MetaFrame™ server farm to be "published" onto a Web page. For the first time, end users can access and
"subscribe" to interactive applications and content through a standard Web browser. NFuse enables IT managers to
instantly integrate interactive applications into any standard Web browser; personalize applications and content by
user; and provide more manageability with centralized deployment. (See attached graphic.) |
