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6
Today, these online services are making
application sharing and collaboration easy
and cost-e ective for prosumers and smaller
customers to adopt. Looking forward, we
believe larger customers will begin to see the
value of SaaS products as well, making them
increasingly strategic components of our
end-to-end application delivery infrastructure.
Strong Product Pipeline
ese growth engines—application virtualiza-
tion, application networking and online
services—give us tremendous con dence
in our future. At the same time, we’re antici-
pating customer needs, building an exciting
pipeline of new technologies and products.
Citrix customers will thrive in a more
dynamic world with Citrix innovations.
is is our fuel for sustainable growth.
We’re integrating our new Citrix EdgeSight
application performance-monitoring tech-
nology into multiple product families, such
as Presentation Server and NetScaler, which
are becoming the  rst application delivery
systems with this important capability built in.
We’re expanding our partnership with
Microsoft through the joint development
of a new “branch o ce in-a-box” appliance,
further extending our WAN optimization
capabilities and increasing our addressable
market opportunity.
We’re building a workforce continuity
SaaS product—a project we code-named
“Kent”—that gives businesses on-demand
communication, collaboration and applica-
tion delivery capabilities needed to handle
unforeseen events that prevent workers
from getting to the o ce.
We have a great array of new tech nologies
for streaming operating systems, virtual
machine images, embedded systems and lots
more that will allow us to continue to innovate
on top of Microso ’s next-generation
Windows Server—Longhorn Server.
“ Our plan is simple—to provide IT with the power of a secure, end-to-end
infrastructure for delivering applications and desktops—anywhere.”
money. Teleworking employees can easily use
a home PC to securely access their o ce PC
over any Internet connection. Schools with
Citrix desktop streaming technology can a ord
more computing in classrooms, labs and the
front o ce. Small businesses with our online
application-sharing products can leverage
the Internet to reach customers across global
markets. Our online assistance products allow
technology companies to provide top-notch
customer support over the Web and our new
Our pace of investment and our vision for
Application Delivery has put us in an amazing
position. We’re o ering quality solutions for the
exibility, security, and e ciencies that busi-
nesses need from IT—now and in the future.
A bank with Citrix products can open, close
or merge branches in weeks—instead of
months. Healthcare providers can deliver
patient information directly to the point-of-
care—saving lives, saving time and saving
Growth and Sustainability