Citrix NetScaler Gains Market Share in Application Delivery Controller Market

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, announced continued revenue growth and market share gains in the application delivery controller (ADC) worldwide market according to a new March 2008 report from Gartner titled, "Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 4Q07 and 2007”1. For 4Q07, the Citrix® NetScaler® web application delivery product line continued to strengthen its market share position, growing its share in the overall ADC market and the advanced platform application delivery controller (AP-ADC)2 sub-segment for the third consecutive quarter. 2007 also marks the second year in a row that Citrix NetScaler has grown its share of the ADC market. Enterprise customers are increasingly relying on server centralization and web-enabled intranet applications to manage the growing diversity and complexity of their application environments, fueling a 36 percent growth in the application acceleration equipment market that reached more than $2 billion in 20073, according to the Gartner report. Furthermore, the explosive popularity of highly interactive consumer web applications are putting ever greater pressure on enterprises to deliver a great experience for their own web applications. Citrix NetScaler brings market-leading performance and an unparalleled track record of delivering the world’s most demanding and high-profile web applications. "Customers look to Citrix NetScaler to accelerate the performance of business-critical web applications, secure sensitive application data and lower the cost of delivering web applications to any user in any location,” said Sanjay Uppal, Citrix vice president of marketing, Application Networking Group for Citrix Systems. "We think our continued ability to gain share in this highly competitive market is a testament to our ability to empower customers to keep pace with growing application complexity and rising user expectations.” A member of the Citrix Delivery Center™ product family, Citrix NetScaler is a purpose-built web application delivery solution that accelerates application performance up to five times while improving security and reducing web infrastructure costs. In addition to delivering web applications for thousands of corporate customers, NetScaler is also the delivery infrastructure of choice for most of the world’s largest consumer websites, touching an estimated 75 percent of all Internet users each day. The product line continues to set new standards in the Application Delivery Controller market with its AppExpert Visual Policy Editor, and integrated end user application performance monitoring, SSL VPN and web application firewall. As a result, administrators gain unprecedented control over the entire web application delivery process and can improve the experience of corporate application users, no matter how complex the environment. About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 7,680 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release 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 revenue growth and recognition of revenue, products, their development and distribution, product demand and pipeline, economic and competitive factors, the Company’s key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in the Company’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. Citrix®, NetScaler® and Citrix Delivery Center™ are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. (1) Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 4Q07 and 2007, Joe Skorupa and Nhat Pham, March 2008, Gartner, Inc. (2) Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 4Q07 and 2007, Joe Skorupa and Nhat Pham, March 2008, Gartner, Inc. (3) Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 4Q07 and 2007, Joe Skorupa and Nhat Pham, March 2008, Gartner, Inc.