Citrix acquired NetScaler in June 2005. For $300 million dollars, Citrix bought the company that specializes in improving the performance of applications across remote networks. The NetScaler acquisition filled a gap related to guaranteeing decent throughput between the users and the servers providing the applications.
I didn’t go to this due dilligence but I [...]
Net6 was a company based out of San Jose, California that Citrix acquired in November 2004. I was part of the due diligence team that was sent to analyse the company from a technical point of view. This is a job that certain members from Citrix Advanced Products are requested to do from time to [...]
Historically, our worst acquisition was Sequoia Software. It was a lot of money for something that really didn’t pan out. The official number was $184 million but I believe it was a bit higher.
Internally we saw this a failure for a few different reasons. Probably the most painful lesson is that we [...]
