FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — 10/24/2005 — Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced Siebel Systems, Inc. has validated the interoperability between Citrix® NetScaler® Application Switch and Siebel business applications version 7.8.2. This validated interoperability with Siebel’s most comprehensive customer-facing solution ensures that large enterprise customers can leverage the NetScaler application delivery systems’ industry-leading application acceleration, traffic management and application security capabilities for optimal performance, security and reliability in a Siebel 7, Web-based environment.

The Siebel validation enables joint customers to gain the advantages of the NetScaler Application Switch, which applies numerous technologies to reduce latency experienced by users on wide area networks, as well as lower the processing overhead on back-end application resources. For example, NetScaler systems provide highly efficient data compression to reduce bandwidth consumption and lower application response times, especially over slower Internet links. During the validation testing, the Siebel applications working with the NetScaler Application Switch in a back-end SSL scenario experienced a significant reduction in Web client response time.

“Siebel’s validation of the NetScaler Application Switch enables us to offer our customers a high-performance, easy-to-deploy and tested solution that provides reliability and scalability of the Siebel business application deployments over wide area networks,” said Butch Winters, vice president and general manager of Global Alliances for Siebel. “NetScaler technology increases the ability of our integrated family of Siebel customer-facing solutions to power multi-channel sales, marketing, and customer service systems over the Web, in call centers, in the field, through reseller channels, and across retail and dealer networks.”

Benefits to Siebel customers include the advanced traffic management capabilities in the NetScaler application delivery system, which helps ensure session integrity for Siebel business applications. The NetScaler technology continuously monitors the health of Web and application servers and intelligently directs client requests to the appropriate server. If a server is down or unavailable, the NetScaler Application Switch automatically redirects traffic to a “healthy” resource, ensuring continuous availability and business continuity.  

The NetScaler systems can also offload computationally-intensive operations from expensive back-end application servers, freeing up valuable resources for more users per server. For example, Siebel administrators can offload TCP connection handling tasks onto the high-speed NetScaler packet processing engine, thereby freeing server CPU cycles from basic connection management tasks. In addition, the NetScaler Application Switch can handle expensive SSL processes such as session set-up and symmetric data encryption associated with secure Web transactions.

“Receiving the validation from Siebel Systems is an important designation that customers look for when implementing solutions,” said David Jones, corporate vice president, business development and corporate affairs, for Citrix. “As a committed Siebel Strategic Software partner, we are pleased that the NetScaler technology meets the needs of customers who want to provide fast and secure remote access to Siebel applications wherever users are located.”

Siebel Systems forms alliances with proven technology leaders to deliver tangible business benefits throughout the enterprise. By choosing Siebel customer-facing and validated partner solutions, Siebel Systems customers can pursue a best-in-class software acquisition strategy. The Siebel Validation Program applies rigorous technical scrutiny to evaluate the integration of third-party solutions with Siebel customer-facing solutions. Integrations that meet the strict testing criteria are validated and documented by the Siebel Validation Program. Validation documentation is available on the Siebel Partner Directory at http://www.siebel.com/partners/dir/directory.shtm or at http://www.citrix.com/siebel

About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and most trusted name in on-demand access. More than 160,000 organizations around the world use the Citrix Access Platform to provide the best possible access experience to any application for any user. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and individuals. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Citrix annual revenues in 2004 were $741 million.  Learn more at http://www.citrix.com/.

For Citrix Investors
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