What Is Citrix?
Citrix Server Now Citrix XenApp
Citrix is a publicly traded company located in Fort Lauderdale Florida. Trading on NASDAQ under the symbol CTXS Citrix Systems is a leader in thin client and remote access technologies. In addition to those key technologies, Citrix has moved into the server virtualization space with their XenServer application competing with industry leaders like VMWare
You are probably visiting this because you heard someone mention Citrix as a product not a company and your wondering what is Citrix? Well think of Xerox, Citrix used to have one main product called Metaframe, then called Metaframe Presentation Server now called Citrix XenApp. Most just referred to this as Citrix. If you told someone you were running Citrix or using Citrix you were almost always referring to the thin client application Citrix Metaframe.
Citrix has grown and now produces many products. Citrix still makes their flagship thin client product Presentation Server. Presentation Server comes in Standard, Advanced and Enterprise versions. When people ask What Is Citrix they are usually looking for the thin client product. So Citrix Presentation Server is a think client technology, meaning that like in the old mainframe days, an application runs on a centralized server or farm of servers and the video and mouse/keyboard/sound are sent to the client creating the appearance of the application running on the client when in reality it's running on a server. With Citrix Metaframe multiple clients can share the same server and it's sliced up like a pie. The bigger the server and less demanding the application, the more people can use the same server.
Additional Citrix Products Include:
Citrix Password Manager - Single Sign-On and Password Management.
Citrix Access Gateway - SSL VPN and Reverse Web Proxy Appliance
Citrix XenServer - Server / Client virtualization
GoToMeeting GotoAssist GoToMyPC - Conferencing and Remote Control / Support
Citrix Systems also makes many other products you can view at www.Citrix.Com