[thinnews] Citrix and Macrovision Join Forces to Optimize Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite Licensing for Customers

From: "Jim Kenzig http://thin.net" <jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: thinnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:39:30 -0400
Press Releases
Citrix and Macrovision Join Forces to Optimize Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite
Licensing for Customers
Integrating Macrovision FLEXnet into Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite 3.0
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. ? 5/27/2004 ? Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the
global leader in access infrastructure solutions, and Macrovision
Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN), the world?s leading provider of software
licensing technologies, today announced the integration of Macrovision
FLEXnetTM into Citrix® MetaFrame® Access Suite 3.0. This licensing
technology provides Citrix customers with a consistent licensing system for
Citrix?s flagship products, reduces the time customers spend on licensing
administration, and allows customers to easily share licenses across
multiple server farms.

?Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite licensing makes it easier for our customers
to monitor, maintain and dynamically share their licenses, which will save
valuable time and resources and enable customers to get more use and value
out of each license,? said Rick Braddy, vice president of product management
at Citrix.  ?This is truly a customer-driven improvement that will make life
simpler for IT administrators.?

The MetaFrame Access Suite?s new license architecture greatly reduces the
administration of license management and enables customers to use each
MetaFrame Access Suite license to its best advantage.  Key customer benefits
include:


Reduction in Licensing Administration ? The number of licensing interactions
between Citrix and its customers may decrease significantly, resulting in
lower IT administration costs for Citrix customers.  By licensing a product
once, Subscription Advantage customers will be entitled to use any upgrade
released during their contract periods without contacting Citrix, except to
download media.

Enhanced License Management through a Web Interface ? The Web-based user
interface provides tools which comprehensively catalog license inventory,
run reports to evaluate license usage and give alerts in the event of
license and Subscription Advantage expiration.  Designed in cooperation with
Macrovision, the Web Interface allows Citrix customers to proactively plan
their license requirements and to monitor and manage license compliance
without Citrix interaction.

Single, Consistent Licensing for All Citrix Products ? With a consistent
licensing platform across Citrix products, MetaFrame Access Suite licensing
will be manageable from a single point.

Sharing Licenses across Server Farms ? The new licensing systems allows
MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 users to share licenses across server
farms, eliminating the need to design farms around licensing, and allowing
organizations to accelerate their return on investment.

?This widespread use of Macrovision FLEXnet technology by one of the largest
software publishers in the world further demonstrates Macrovision?s
leadership in pricing, packaging and protecting software,? said Dan Stickel,
general manager of Macrovision?s Software Technologies Group.  ?Citrix joins
a growing roster of well-respected vendors, including Adobe, Macromedia,
Motorola, Cisco and others, implementing Macrovision technology for software
licensing. As a vital component of Citrix access infrastructure, Macrovision
FLEXnet will help optimize and strengthen the relationships between Citrix
and its customers, and simplify licensing and administration throughout the
software lifecycle.?
Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite is the easiest way for organizations to
provide a secure, single point of access to enterprise applications and
information on demand, while ensuring a consistent user experience anywhere,
anytime, using any device, over any connection. Extending the world?s most
widely deployed presentation server, the Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite is
access infrastructure for the on-demand enterprise. The suite centralizes
access to applications and information and enables IT staffs to deliver,
manage, monitor and measure enterprise resources on demand. Citrix customers
are able to run IT as a corporate computing utility, provisioning software
as a service. This simplifies the complexity and reduces the costs of
deploying and administering hundreds of heterogeneous applications and
delivering them to workers on demand anywhere, anytime, to any device, over
any connection.

About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader in access
infrastructure solutions and the most trusted name in secure access for
enterprises and individuals. Nearly 50 million people in more than 120,000
organizations around the world use Citrix every day.  Our software gives
people secure and well-managed access to business information wherever it
lives?on demand.  Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100
companies, 99% of the Fortune 500, and 92% of the Fortune Global 500.  Based
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Citrix has offices in 22 countries, and more
than 7,000 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries.  For
more information visit http://www.citrix.com.

For Citrix Investors
This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to
the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.  The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute
guarantees of future performance.  Those statements involve a number of
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including
risks associated with the company?s business involving the company?s
products, their development and distribution, economic and competitive
factors and the company?s key strategic relationships and other risks
detailed in the company?s filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking
information contained in this press release or with respect to the
announcements described herein.

About Macrovision
Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN) is the market leader in electronic
licensing, copy protection, and digital rights management (?DRM?)
technologies.  Analysts recognize Macrovision as the clear market leader,
and it?s estimated that the company sells more software-based licensing
solutions than all its competitors combined. Macrovision FLEXnet, the world?
s first universal licensing platform, enables customers to easily price,
package and protect their software. More than 3000 software publishers have
shipped FLEXenabled? software, and hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies use
Macrovision technologies to better manage their software licenses. The
company holds over 700 software licensing and DRM patents worldwide and has
been ranked by Business 2.0 as one of the top 100 Tech Companies for two
consecutive years. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Macrovision has
international offices in London, Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Taipei, Hong
Kong and Seoul. More information about the Macrovision can be found at
http://www.macrovision.com.

For Macrovision Investors
This press release may contain ?forward-looking? statements as that term is
defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A number of
factors could cause Macrovision?s actual results to differ from anticipated
results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such factors are
addressed in Macrovision?s filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (available at http://www.sec.gov). Macrovision assumes no
obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

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[thinnews] Citrix and Macrovision Join Forces to Optimize Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite Licensing for Customers

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