NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1998--
Users Benefit from Compatibility of Citrix WinFrame
Thin-Client/Server Software and CA's Unicenter TNG
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) today announced at CA World,
April 26-May 1 (Booth No. 92), a business relationship with Computer
Associates International, Inc. (NYSE:CA) certifying compatibility of
CA's end-to-end enterprise management solution with Citrix WinFrame
thin-client/server software. As part of their business relationship,
Citrix and Computer Associates will engage in ongoing marketing
activities, including market development and joint participation
in upcoming tradeshows. In addition, Symbol Technologies, a global
leader in wireless data transaction, will demonstrate its Symbol
Spectrum 24 wireless network, accessing Unicenter TNG running
centrally on WinFrame thin-client/server software.
Compatibility of these leading solutions enables customers to
deploy business-critical applications across the extended enterprise
without regard to user hardware, location or available bandwidth and
ensure manageability of those applications using the robust feature
set of Unicenter TNG and Citrix WinFrame thin- client/server software.
Unicenter TNG, Computer Associates' award- winning enterprise
management solution, provides integrated IT resource management and a
cohesive view of the IT environment. Citrix WinFrame
thin-client/server software delivers a high- performance, low-cost way
to deploy critical enterprise applications like Unicenter TNG,
throughout the enterprise without sacrificing application performance,
data security and administrative control.
"There is a high degree of synergy between leading enterprise
solution providers like Computer Associates and Citrix," said Barry
Davis, director of alliance marketing for Citrix. "This new
partnership not only enables both companies to provide greater
satisfaction to mutual customers through product compatibility, but
also sets the stage for future joint marketing and sales efforts,
especially on behalf of large, global organizations."
"Universal access to mission-critical applications is an
important component of any IT enterprise management strategy," stated
Carl Hartman, vice president of development partner programs for
Computer Associates. "CA's alliance with Citrix enables us to enhance
the power and versatility of Unicenter TNG by providing
high-performance access across clients, platforms and networks all
from a centrally managed point. As a result, WinFrame
thin-client/server software helps reduce our customers' total cost of
application ownership."
Computer Associates has completed product testing and
certification, assuring customers of seamless integration and
compatibility between Citrix WinFrame and CA's Unicenter TNG. Future
plans call for tighter integration of Unicenter TNG and WinFrame to
provide enhanced management of the WinFrame thin- client/server
environment.
About Unicenter TNG
Unicenter TNG is an integrated enterprise management solution
that enables organizations to manage all IT resources, encompassing
heterogeneous networks, systems, applications, and databases. It
provides comprehensive end-to-end enterprise management for TCP/IP,
SNA, IPX/SPX and DECnet networks, and 40 platforms including desktops,
Windows NT, UNIX, AS/400, NetWare and mainframe environments.
Unicenter TNG is the only fully integrated management solution
covering network discovery, topology, performance, events and status,
security, software distribution, storage, workload, help desk, change
management and other functions for traditional and distributed
computing environments, as well as for the Internet and intranets.
Unicenter TNG's intelligent manager/agent technology delivers highly
scalable management of the entire computing environment, including
hardware and software.
About WinFrame
WinFrame thin-client/server software delivers a high-
performance, low-cost way to deploy, manage and access business-
critical applications throughout the enterprise without sacrificing
application performance, data security or administrative control.
WinFrame's Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) enables
applications to be centrally deployed across heterogeneous computing
environments to users of a wide range of hardware, operating platforms
and network connections. WinFrame is used by thousands of enterprises
to support well over a million users worldwide. |
