Citrix Executive Named As One of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications” By TMC’s INTERNET TELEPHONY

Citrix VP Gordon Payne Recognized for Executive Leadership Among VoIP Community

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — 10/16/2006 — Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced Gordon Payne, vice president of marketing for Citrix’s Advanced Solutions Group, has been recognized as one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications” by the editorial team at Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine – a distinction that identifies the leading voices and advocates who have played an instrumental role in the progression of the IP industry. Payne is honored in the October 2006 issue of the leading monthly VoIP magazine, which covers emerging technologies, market trends and business opportunities in the field of Internet telephony.

“We’ve looked back over the course of the last decade to acknowledge those individuals whose innovations and ideas have contributed to the growth and maturity of the IP market,” says TMC’s President and Group Editor in Chief, Rich Tehrani. “With these thought leaders at the forefront of the IP community, we predict the next generation of communications will reach new heights we have yet to imagine.”

“It’s an honor to be recognized by today’s industry influencers in the IP market,” says Citrix’s Gordon Payne. “IP Communications can truly improve the way people communicate – speeding up information flow, reducing costs, and making organizations more agile. Looking back over the last 10 years, we as an industry have laid a foundation to support continued innovation. As we move to new modes of application delivery and integrating voice into business applications we will further leverage these investments in IP Communications.”

The “Top 100 Voices” will be profiled in the October 2006 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY, which also marks the magazine’s 100th issue, and will be released during TMC’s INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2006 at the San Diego Convention Center. In addition to being profiled in the magazine, the “Top 100 Voices” will be honored at a special reception at the event.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 2,100 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an http://www.amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither http://www.alexa.com nor http://www.amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and most trusted name in on-demand access. More than 180,000 organizations around the world rely on Citrix to provide the best possible access experience to any application for any user. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and individuals. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Citrix annual revenues in 2005 were $909 million. Learn more at http://www.citrix.com.

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