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New Citrix GoToMyPC 5 Delivers Extreme Performance and Speed; The ``Best Just Got Better'' as Market-Leader GoToMyPC Races Ahead in Speed and Industry-firsts for Remote Desktop Access from Anywhere

Business Wire, Jan 4, 2006

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Smashing through performance barriers with unparalleled speed, strong security and industry-firsts, Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in access-infrastructure solutions, today announced the release of Citrix(R) GoToMyPC(R) 5.

With breakthrough drag-and-drop file-transfer, a crisp true-color environment, convenient multi-monitor support, performance monitoring and tuning, fifth generation GoToMyPC is revolutionizing the way people access information-again. The ground-breaking web service offers today's half-billion mobile workers (Source: IDC, Worldwide Mobile Worker Population Forecast and Analysis 2005-2009, Doc # 34124, October 2005) and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) around the world greater productivity with real-time desktop access from anywhere with unmatched speed. In a recent test by VeriTest(TM), a testing service of Lionbridge (Nasdaq:LIOX), for example, GoToMyPC 5 allowed users to connect up to 4X faster than other products as noted in the online report at http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports/citrix/default.asp.> Faster to connect and faster in session than previous versions, GoToMyPC 5 enables workers to securely access their desktops, including e-mail, files, applications, and all network resources from any Web browser while on the road, at a remote site, or when working from home. The easy-to-use, secure web service is uniquely supported by five data centers around the world and engages with seven major Internet Service Providers to ensure optimal performance.

From Pioneer of Web-based Remote Access to Five Years of Market Leadership

"GoToMyPC revolutionized the market as the first web-based remote access web service more than five years ago," said Brett Caine, group vice president and general manager, Online Group, Citrix. "Now customers in every industry, including security-sensitive healthcare, financial services, state and local government, legal and technology, adopt our market-leading web service because they know they can count on us for fast, easy, secure and reliable access. With GoToMyPC 5, we've raised the bar again to deliver the best access solution that is so vital for productivity, anytime, anywhere."

With faculty and students conducting research in more than 50 countries, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health needed a solution that would enable its educational community to easily access information housed in many different electronic systems and locations. "From the start, GoToMyPC Corporate delivered a best-in-class solution for our faculty and staff to gain quick, reliable and secure remote access to information from anywhere," said Ross McKenzie, director of information systems at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "And, now with GoToMyPC 5, our faculty and staff are enjoying greater productivity than ever with time-saving drag-and-drop, faster in-session performance and one-click ease-of-use."

GoToMyPC 5 is All About Enhancing Productivity

"GoToMyPC is fundamentally about increasing productivity," said Bernd Christiansen, co-founder and director of technology, Online Group, Citrix. "With five years of consecutive improvements and testing with our avid GoToMyPC users around the world, customers are telling us we've built the backbone and the technology with GoToMyPC 5 that serves the best customer experience, value, security and reliability available today."

New in GoToMyPC 5

--Up to 4X Faster Performance: Connect quickly to a remote PC for fast remote desktop access.

--True Color: View a remote PC desktop in brilliant true color - Like Being There(TM)

--Drag-and-Drop: Transfer files and folders quickly from one PC to another by simply dragging and dropping between screens. Access e-mail attachments instantly and securely across platforms-an exclusive technology breakthrough.

--Performance Tuning: Adjust the speed and screen display settings to the performance that bests suits user needs.

--Multi-Monitor Support: Use GoToMyPC with multiple monitors connected to a single PC to enhance productivity.

--Performance Monitoring: Self-diagnose connection speeds, review performance levels and learn how to enhance performance to gain even greater levels of productivity.

According to leading industry analyst and market research firm, IDC, GoToMyPC is well positioned to deliver low cost, secure remote access to small and medium-sized businesses with little infrastructure and larger enterprises that need a complementary offering to a VPN solution. "Citrix GoToMyPC is truly taking a hold in the corporate business segment," reported Stephen Drake, research director at IDC. "Its technology in terms of features and critical components, such as security, give the company a strategic advantage." (Source: IDC, Citrix Online Vendor Profile: Vendor Needs and Strategies, Doc # 34097, October 2005.)

Highly Secure GoToMyPC for Professionals and Businesses of All Sizes

GoToMyPC is highly secure and fully encrypted with strong, built-in 128-bit AES end-to-end encryption standard. It can be set up and ready to go in minutes -- even by novice PC users. Citrix offers three versions of GoToMyPC to meet the needs of individual professionals, small and medium-sized business and large organizations. Citrix GoToMyPC Personal is for individual users who want remote access to one or more PCs. Designed for workgroups and teams, Citrix GoToMyPC Pro (4-20 PCs) features centralized billing, an Online Administration Center where managers can add, suspend and delete users and run usage reports. Citrix GoToMyPC Corporate (20 or more PCs) allows organizations to create and manage groups, control usage and feature access, establish password-enforcement rules and select additional security features such as third-party authentication. Free fully-functional trials and more information are available at www.gotomypc.com.

 

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