The company's first product was Citrix Multiuser, an extension of OS/2 developed over two years. The Citrix name is a portmanteau of Citrus and UNIX. Citrix was originally named Citrus, but changed its name after an existing company claimed trademark rights. Iacobucci served as chairman of the company and Roger Roberts became the CEO of Citrix in 1990. The company's first employees were five other engineers from IBM that Iacobucci convinced to join his team. Following its initial setup and development, Iacobucci moved the company to his former home of Coral Springs, Florida.

Original Citrix logo until September 14, 2020.Ĭitrix was founded in Richardson, Texas in 1989 by former IBM developer Ed Iacobucci with $3 million in funding. In 2020, Citrix generated $3.2 billion in revenue and had 9,000 employees. In 2017, Citrix completed the merger of GetGo with LogMeIn's products.Ĭitrix has corporate headquarters in both Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Santa Clara, California, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, and additional development centers in Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, and the United Kingdom. In 2016, as part of a US$1.8 billion product deal with LogMeIn, Citrix spun off the GoTo product line into a new business entity, entitled GetGo. In 2014, Citrix acquired Framehawk and used its technology to improve the delivery of virtual desktops and applications over wireless networks. This was followed by more than a dozen other acquisitions from 2005 to 2012, which allowed Citrix to expand into server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, Infrastructure as a Service, and Software as a Service offerings. in 2001 and ExpertCity, a provider of remote desktop products, in 2003. The company launched its first initial public offering in 1995 and, with few competitors, experienced large revenue increases between 19.Ĭitrix acquired Sequoia Software Corp. By the 1990s, Citrix came to prominence as an industry leader in thin client technology, enabling purpose-built devices to access remote servers and resources. It began by developing remote access products for Microsoft operating systems, licensing source code from Microsoft, and has been in partnership with the company throughout its history.

The company was founded in Richardson, Texas in 1989 by Ed Iacobucci, who served as chairman until his departure in 2000. Citrix products are claimed to be in use by over 400,000 clients worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100, and 98% of the Fortune 500. is an American multinational cloud computing and virtualization technology company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies.

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