You know the story. A leader in anger will kill the messenger of bad news. However, I believe there is more to the story. Often you find that the messenger takes pleasure in bringing bad news in the hope of tearing something apart and getting some twisted pleasure of seeing things fall [...]
It is common knowledge among programmers that the movie OfficeSpace is just a bit too close to the truth. The cubicles are small, the programmers are fidgety, and the management is… well, just management.
During my time at IBM it sometimes felt like I was in a Dilbert cartoon. The funny thing is that [...]
The agreement with Microsoft affirmed Citrix’s and Microsoft’s commitment to building a multiuser NT system in 1992. Looking back, this was a very pivotal decision for both companies to work together on the NT code base.
At the time, Citrix was firmly commited to doing Multiuser OS/2 so this was a very large strategic change. This [...]
This was the last party I attended with Citrix while still in America. In February of 1997 I was off to Australia.
I’m surprised I still have material about this event. I remember that the yacht was massive and that it just managed to hold the employees of that time. I can remember Roger and Ed [...]
Some of the oldest documents I have about Citrix come from my interview folder when I interviewed in December 1992.
Essentially someone went and found the best brochures and documents of the time in the hopes of convincing interview candidates that Citrix was a real company with a real future.
This document sums up where Citrix was in late [...]
As you may already know, Citrix has an internal program for gathering product ideas from employees. In a previous post, I asked for customers to submit ideas so that I could forward these ideas into the product ideas database. The good news is that two of you (Alexander and Simon Bramfitt) submitted ideas [...]
Over the years, many of the original Citrix employees have left and found other jobs or ventures. Some of these people I have located again.
Probably the most concentrated new venture I have found so far is mVisible. It is not far from Ft. Lauderdale and boasts a wide selection of former Citrix talent. The leaders [...]
If you had told me in 1993 that in the year 2006 we would be a 3000 employee company with close to $1B in revenue, I don’t think I would have believed you. I would have especially disbelieved you the week that they told us there might not be enough money to pay us [...]
