In 1995, they shipped a multiuser version of Windows NT with remote access, known as WinFrame. Microsoft relationshipĬitrix obtained a source code license to Microsoft's Windows NT 3.51.

WinFrame pushed Citrix into having widespread adoption.Īs part of these successes, the company went public in December 1995. WinFrame was sanctioned by Microsoft and embraced by the enterprise businesses. In 1995, WinFrame, based on Windows NT 3.5, was released. It became Citrix's first successful product. In 1993, Citrix introduced WinView, which provided remote access to DOS and Windows 3.1 applications on a multi-user platform. Without the help of this funding, Citrix would not have survived. In 19 there was no income at all.īetween 19, Citrix received funding from both Intel and Microsoft as well as venture capitalists. Roberts, a Texan, came from Texas Instruments.įrom 1989 to 1995, the company did not turn a profit. Roger Roberts was appointed the CEO of Citrix in 1990. This was due in part to Microsoft declaring in 1991 that they were not going to support OS/2 anymore. Citrix hoped to capture part of the UNIX market by making it easy to deploy text-based OS/2 applications. Citrix licensed the OS/2 source code from Microsoft, bypassing IBM. The company's first product was Citrix MULTIUSER, which was based on OS/2. Iacobucci was offered a job at Microsoft as chief technical officer of its networking group but turned it down to start his own company. IBM was not interested in this idea so Iacobucci left. Iacobucci's vision was to build OS/2 with multi-user support. Many of the original founding members had participated in the IBM OS/2 project.

The Citrix name is a portmanteau of Citrus and UNIX. Ĭitrix was originally named Citrus but changed its name after an existing company claimed trademark rights. Iacobucci quickly moved the company to Coral Springs, Florida since he lived there when he had worked at IBM.

Citrix was founded in 1989 by former IBM developer Ed Iacobucci in Richardson, Texas with $3 million in funding.

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