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SAP Selects Citrix MetaFrame for Broadening Application Access with mySAP.com
Workplace
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2000--Citrix(R)
Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) announced its MetaFrame(TM) application
server software has been chosen by SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) to expand the
application access capabilities of mySAP.com(TM) Workplace, an
enterprise Web portal that gives users personalized, role-based access
to all the applications and tools they need from a single access
point. mySAP.com is the Internet solution that connects employees,
customers, suppliers and business partners as if they all were one
company. Citrix MetaFrame can be used to provide access to any
Windows(R)-based application from mySAP.com Workplace.
"While SAP has completely Web-enabled its software by using SAPGUI
for HTML, a user's ability to access all required applications through
a single, personalized Web portal is an important milestone in
improving ease-of-use and flexibility," said Gunther Tolkmit, Chief
Marketing Officer, SAP AG. "mySAP.com Workplace offers this capability
by giving users browser-based access to all SAP applications, Web
content and Internet-based services. To allow mySAP.com Workplace
users to seamlessly access any non-Web-enabled application, Citrix
MetaFrame adds a reliable and fast technology to our solution."
"The Web browser is quickly becoming the preferred universal
<24>access point for computing tools and software," said Douglas Wheeler,
access point for computing tools and software," said Douglas Wheeler,
senior vice president of Marketing for Citrix. "One of MetaFrame's
strengths is the ability to provide access to virtually any
application from a single device, including standard browsers. Because
today's computing environments frequently comprise a mix of
application platforms, MetaFrame is an important enabler of
comprehensive, browser-based application access. We are pleased to
provide this capability to users of mySAP.com Workplace."
Further, in a joint initiative to be launched in May, Citrix will
offer all SAP customers the opportunity to test the advantages of
MetaFrame software in conjunction with mySAP.com Workplace. SAP
customers will have access to a trial version of MetaFrame, providing
them the means to test the flexibility of the mySAP.com Workplace
portal to incorporate any application available on Windows.
Last year SAP released its SAPGUI for Windows for use on Citrix
MetaFrame. Since then many companies, including SAP itself, have
deployed this technology for their users to provide improved
manageability at lower costs.
About MetaFrame
Citrix MetaFrame application server software is enabling
organizations to achieve "Digital Independence(TM)" from the high cost
and complexity of traditional computing by transforming the way they
<48>deploy, manage and access business applications across the extended
deploy, manage and access business applications across the extended
enterprise. MetaFrame extends the functionality of Microsoft(R)
Windows NT(R) Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition and Microsoft
Windows 2000 Terminal Services by providing enterprise application
management for increased scalability, deployment and simplified
application support, Web enablement of applications, and universal
application access to users in any location, on any device, over any
network connection - wireless to Web.
About mySAP.com
The mySAP.com Internet business strategy, comprising the mySAP.com
Marketplace, mySAP.com Workplace, mySAP.com Business Scenarios and
mySAP.com Application Hosting, addresses today's challenges businesses
face in the Internet age. mySAP.com enables collaborative
business-to-business relationships for buying, selling and
communicating, streamlining an individual's productivity with
simplified access to applications. mySAP.com application hosting
is the first end-to-end hosting environment for businesses to evaluate
and compose company-specific solutions via the Internet before
purchase and once a purchase decision has been made choose to
implement and operate in a hosted environment.
About SAP
As the market leader of inter-enterprise software solutions, SAP
is leveraging its strength in industry-focused business software and
<75>the world's largest enterprise software customer base to deliver
the world's largest enterprise software customer base to deliver
mySAP.com. mySAP.com provides an open collaborative business
environment of personalized solutions on demand. This enables
companies of all sizes and industries to fully engage their employees,
customers and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet economy.
mySAP.com allows people to harness the power of the Internet to
work smarter, better and faster by optimizing supply chains, managing
strategic relationships, reducing time to market, sharing virtual
information, and increasing productivity and shareholder value.
SAP AG preference and common shares are listed on the Frankfurt
Stock Exchange as well as a number of other exchanges. In the US,
SAP's American Depositary Receipts (ADR's), each worth one-twelfth of
a preference share, trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the
symbol "SAP." SAP is a component of the DAX, the index of 30 German
blue chip companies.
Information on the SAP AG preference shares is available on
Bloomberg under the symbol SAP3 GR, on Reuters under SAPG_p.F or DE
and on Quotron under SAGVD.EU. Information on the SAP common shares is
available on Bloomberg under the symbol SAP GR, on Reuters under
SAPG.F and on Quotron under SAGR.EU. Additional information is
available on SAP AG's home page: sap.com.
About Citrix
<98>
Citrix Systems, Inc. is a global leader in application server
software and services that offer "Digital Independence(TM)" - the
ability to run any application on any device over any connection,
wireless to Web. Citrix's solutions enable organizations of all types,
from major enterprises to emerging Application Service Providers
(ASPs), to reach more users, with more applications, in more locations
- and achieve this with greater speed and predictability, and lower
costs. Founded in 1989, Citrix today is one of the world's
fastest-growing software companies, with more than 100,000 customers
worldwide, including every one of the FORTUNE 100 firms. Its products,
including MetaFrame(TM) software and Independent Computing
Architecture (ICA(R)), a core application-server technology, have been
widely adopted by the corporate mainstream to achieve key business
goals. The firm, which markets its solutions through value-added
resellers, system integrators and OEM licensees, is headquartered in
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Citrix is traded on the Nasdaq National Market
under the symbol CTXS and was named to the Standard & Poor's 500 Index
in 1999. For more information, please visit the Citrix Web site at
citrix.com
For Citrix Investors
Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to
<122>the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange
the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press
release which are not strictly historical statements, including,
without limitation, statements regarding current or future financial
performance, management's plans and objectives for future operations,
product plans and performance, management's assessment of market
factors, as well as statements regarding the strategy and plans of the
company and its strategic partners, constitute forward-looking
statements which involve risks and uncertainties, including, without
limitation, risks associated with the company's reliance upon its
strategic relationships with Microsoft and other strategic partners,
dependence upon broad-based acceptance of the company's ICA protocol,
management of growth, market acceptance of new products or new
versions of existing products, the possibility of undetected software
errors, and dependence on proprietary technology, as well as risks of
downturns in economic conditions generally, and in the software
industry specifically, and risks associated with competition,
competitive pricing pressures and year 2000 compliance efforts of the
company and third parties on which the company is dependent. For a
more detailed description of the risk factors associated withthe
company, please refer to the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 1999 and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended March 31, 2000.
Citrix(R), WinFrame(R), ICA(R), MetaFrame(TM) and Digital
Independence(TM) are registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix
Systems, Inc. Microsoft(R) and Windows NT(R) are registered trademarks
of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and registered
trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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CONTACT: Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale
Susan Breuer, 954/267-2820
susan.breuer@citrix.com
or
Greenough Communications Group, Boston
Gillian Farquhar, 617/451-0021 (ext.14)
gillian@gcgpr.com
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