Citrix&#39;s Microsoft Pact Boosts Clients&#39; Confidence
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Credit Suisse First Boston maintained an &quot;outperform&quot; rating for Citrix Systems (nasdaq: CTXS - news - people ) after the server software provider announced a new five-year licensing extension and collaboration agreement with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT
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It seems that Microsoft&#39;s new upgrade to Windows is making some people nervous. That&#39;s not surprising, as home and office computing environments are just not as friendly as they used to be due to viruses and spyware. Even the software we ...
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The virtualization software can now manage both physical and virtual servers, Citrix says.
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Software giant Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and corporate network software provider Citrix Systems Inc. (CTXS.
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Tokyo, June 27 (Jiji Press)--KDDI Corp.  and Microsoft Co. said Wednesday that they have agreed on a comprehensive tie-up in new software services for corporate customers.  Under the accord, the major Japanese telecommunications career and the Japanese unit of Microsoft Corp.
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The software company's investments are showing some promise.
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Citrix Systems made a slew of product announcements on Monday that leverages the 18-year-old application-delivery company's technology to make it a major player in virtualization, unified communications, regulatory compliance, and green technology.At its App Delivery Expo, in Las Vegas, Citrix announced the completion of the acquisition of XenSource, a virtual machine infrastructure provider, that will put the company squarely in competition with VMware.At the show Citrix also announced a unified communications technology, EasyCall, that, when embedded in line of business applications, will allow users to initiate click-to-call communications within a company's existing corporate phone system.SmartAuditor will monitor, record, and play back application sessions as a core capability of its existing Presentation Server solution and is targeted at compliance and regulatory requirements from the SEC, HIPAA (Health Insurance and Accountability Act), and others.Along with Hewlett Packard, Citrix also announced a datacenter solution, PowerSmart, to reduce datacenter power consumption.This technology will also become a component of Presentation Server infrastructure.With the close of the XenSource deal, Citrix will create a Virtualization and Management Division within Citrix rather than simply folding the technology within the Citrix product line. Peter Levine, XenSource CEO, will head up the new division.What remains to be seen if the rest of the industry, particularly former contributors to the Xen project like IBM, Dell, AMD, and HP, will continue to support the underlying open-source virtualization engine.Also in question is what Microsoft will do when it unveils its virtualization solution.Citrix and Microsoft have worked together to deliver Windows applications on Citrix technology. The question is whether Microsoft will continue to give Citrix products the kind of inside support that it has enjoyed up until now.For their part, Citrix officials believe that it is it the only company that offers an end- to-end application delivery solution that can leverage application, desktop, and server virtualization all in one fell swoop.Citrix's desktop virtualization technology integrates Citrix hypervisor, provisioning technology, and desktop delivery technology into a single offering, according to Wes Wasson, a senior vice president at Citrix.Up until now, a company's only choice would be to buy separate point solutions from different vendors and integrate them after the fact.The EasyCall communications capability will be a standard feature in the Platinum Edition of Citrix NetScaler for Web applications and Citrix Presentation Server for Windows.Although EasyCall does not possess all of the capabilities of a unified communications solution, it will allow users to roll a mouse over any phone number, found in the main corporate directory, in any application.A pop-up dialer allows a user to click on any one of the multiple numbers that might appear -- home, mobile, or office, for example.EasyCall is available as part of Citrix Communications Gateway appliance and is priced at $3,500. It can support approximately 10,000 users.SmartAuditor is similar in design to a digital video recorder that captures screen activity from an end-user's PC and stores it in a digitally signed, time-stamped video files.SmartAuditor is available now.
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Corporate licences make for happy software vendors
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According to the CEO of TIBCO Software, things are rosy with the software business.
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Revenue up 21 per cent, use your imagination from there Citrix Systems saw second quarter revenue rise 21 per cent, driven by growth in product license revenue, online services and technical services.â¦
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Deal will combine Symantec&#39;s security products with Veritas&#39; storage software, resulting in reach from PCs to data centers.
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Novell says its deal with Microsoft is helping its Linux business.
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Microsoft and Novell officials this week defended their controversial business agreement to collaborate and promote integration between Windows and SUSE Linux. But many of those at The Open Source Business Conference remained skeptical.
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Microsoft said last week that its first-quarter net income rose 11% and revenue 12% because of strong server-software demand and steady sales of PCs that run its products.
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Application delivery to define future IT The ability to deliver usable applications to employees anywhere they happen to be will define the future of IT says Mark Templeton, chief executive officer of infrastructure software specialist Citrix.â¦
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The deal is expected to be a boon for Microsoft, which has been struggling for a bigger share of the cell phone software market.
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Stock index futures rose on Friday, buoyed by strong earnings from Microsoft Corp and as a speedy agreement on a U.S. economic stimulus package helped boost investor confidence.