Archive for the 'Citrix History' Category

Digital Independence

June 9, 2008

Citrix has had many different promotional phrases over the years. Around 2000, the most popular catch phrase was “Digital Independence”.

The phrase was first introduced by Ed Iacobucci at iForum 1999. By itself, the concept does not mean much. However, based on the description from Ed it was destined to become a very [...]

Citrix VideoFrame 1.0

June 9, 2008

In 1999, Citrix released a product called VideoFrame. This new product was designed to make up for the audio and video shortcomings of server-based computing. In essence, it was an early audio/video streaming server. As good as it sounded, the product failed. By the end of 2000, the product was written [...]

Barry Dockswell (was at Citrix, now City Commissioner)

May 21, 2008

Barry Dockswell is one of the original Citrix employees who was hired in 1990.  During his eight years at Citrix, he made a major impact in the business development and culture of the company.  Just recently I have learned that Barry ran for office in Broward County in Florida (Ft Lauderdale area) and won.
Barry has [...]

User Experience by Brad Pedersen

March 18, 2008

Last year at the Citrix Solutions Conference in Europe, Brad Pedersen gave a presentation about “The User Experience“. If look at the slides, you will notice that the first several slides cover early Citrix product history. From experience, this kind of background is fairly rare and obviously important to people like Brad since [...]

Russ Naples Video About 64-bit Computing (2005)

February 27, 2008

There are a few Citrix videos available on the Internet.  I have not found that many yet but persistence usually pays off.  Just yesterday I found one via Veoh that featured Russ Naples.  I worked with Russ in the old days at Citrix and I would guess that he started not long after me.  He [...]

My First Citrix Patent

February 25, 2008

Back when I worked at IBM, there was a push to have more patents. They gave classes about what was valuable and how to best present new ideas for the sake of a patent. Until recently, I kept this material. I saw value in the information and always thought that somehow it [...]

More Citrix History (1989-2002)

February 19, 2008

Some things are hard to find. I’ve been working on this blog since September 2006 and this is the first time I have found an excellent report on Citrix history from an independent source. If you have about ten minutes, please read NetIndustries summary for Citrix. It’s interesting because I’ve never heard [...]

Citrix Offshoot From 1993

February 11, 2008

It is fairly well known that certain Citrix employees in the past have gone on to join or form other companies.  The most obvious recent example is Myxer which has a large number of early ex-Citrix people.  Things continue to go pretty well for them.  What isn’t so well known is that around 1993, [...]

Second Citrix Building in Coral Springs

November 13, 2007

I’ve reported about 210 University, Coral Springs and even included pictures in a previous post. However, I have never showed you the view from space using Google Earth.

Click this image to fully expand the view. Note that Citrix left this building in 1997. I uploaded pictures of 210 University to Google and [...]