Citrix Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for 2009 Application Delivery Controllers Magic Quadrant

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-(Business Wire)-September 25, 2009 - Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) today announced that Citrix® has been evaluated and positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the 2009 Application Delivery Controllers Magic Quadrant¹ report authored by Mark Fabbi, Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst, and Joe Skorupa, Research VP. The report evaluates NetScaler®, a key component of the company’s virtualization, networking and cloud computing strategy,. Gartner defines a vendor in the Leaders Quadrant as one who has “the ability to shape the market by introducing additional capabilities in its product offerings, and by raising awareness of the importance of these features. Key capabilities for a leader revolve around the advanced platform ADC capabilities that focus on enterprise application capabilities. We expect a leader to have strong or growing market share, especially in the advanced platform ADCs, and to have solutions that resonate with an increasing number of enterprises. Expertise in complex data center application deployment also is a necessity to be a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers.”

Citrix NetScaler reduces the total cost of web application delivery, optimizes the user experience and makes applications run up to five times better. In addition to accelerating and securing web applications for thousands of corporate customers, Citrix NetScaler is the delivery infrastructure of choice for most of the world’s largest cloud providers and consumer websites, touching an estimated 75 percent of all Internet users each day.

“With organizations of all sizes increasingly reliant upon web applications to run their business efficiently, the fast, dependable and secure delivery of these applications is paramount,” said Klaus Oestermann, vice president and general manager, NetScaler Product Group at Citrix. “The recent introduction of our next-generation NetScaler® nCore™ technology and launch of our NetScaler® VPX™ virtual appliance is evidence of the continued commitment from Citrix to lead the industry in innovation, both in the enterprise datacenter as well as the emerging cloud computing market. We are honored that Citrix was placed in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant.”

The full 2009 Gartner Application Delivery Controller Magic Quadrant, report can be viewed at: www.gartner.com and on the Citrix Web site: http://deliver.citrix.com/go/citrix/citrixgartnermq.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Citrix Systems, Inc.

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtualization, networking and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center, Citrix Cloud Center (C3) and Citrix Online Services product families radically simplify computing for millions of users, delivering applications as an on-demand service to any user, in any location on any device. Citrix customers include the world’s largest Internet companies, 99 percent of Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989, annual revenue in 2008 was $1.6 billion.

For Citrix Investors

This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with products, their development, integration and distribution, product demand and pipeline, customer acceptance of new products, economic and competitive factors, Citrix’s key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in Citrix’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein.

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¹ Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers” by Mark Fabbi and Joe Skorupa, September 24, 2009.

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