Citrix Delivery CenterĬitrix Delivery Center, composed of XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer and NetScaler, virtualizes servers, desktops and applications, centralizes them in the datacenter and delivers them as an on-demand service. TechnologyĬitrix' key product families are Citrix Delivery Center, Citrix Cloud Center (C3) and Citrix Online Services product families. The company went public in December 1995. It became Citrix's first successful product. Citrix developed the product further and released it as WinView. It provided desktop and applications from the server to multiple users in a similar way Terminal Servers still do. It was a remote access application built on DOS and Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager. In 1993, Citrix purchased the product "Netware Access Server" from Novell. Without the help of this funding, Citrix would not have survived. Between 19, Citrix received funding from both Intel and Microsoft as well as venture capitalists. Roberts, a Texan, came from Texas Instruments.įrom 1989 to 1995, the company did not turn a profit. Roger Roberts was appointed the CEO of Citrix in 1990. This was due in part to Microsoft declaring in 1991 that it was no longer going to support OS/2. Citrix hoped to capture part of the UNIX market by making it easy to deploy text-based OS/2 applications.
Citrix licensed the OS/2 source code from Microsoft, bypassing IBM. The company's first product was Citrix MULTIUSER, which was based on OS/2. Iacobucci was offered a job at Microsoft as chief technical officer of its networking group but turned it down to start his own company. IBM was not interested in this idea, so Iacobucci left. Iacobucci's vision was to build OS/2 with multi-user support. Many of the original founding members had participated in the IBM OS/2 project. The Citrix name is a portmanteau of Citrus and UNIX. Ĭitrix was originally named Citrus but changed its name after an existing company claimed trademark rights. Iacobucci quickly moved the company to Coral Springs, Florida since he lived there when he had worked at IBM. Citrix was founded in Richardson, Texas in 1989 by former IBM developer Ed Iacobucci, with $3 million in funding.