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HP and Citrix Win Outsourcing Excellence Award

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 HP and Citrix (Nasdaq: CTXS) today announced that the companies’ long term services relationship has been selected as the winner of the Outsourcing Center’s 2006 Outsourcing Excellence Awards “Best Business Challenge” category.

HP’s eight-year services agreement with Citrix fulfills hundreds of orders each week, including the shipment of several thousand software/training kits and electronic software downloads through its business process outsourcing contract with Citrix. Through these services Citrix has been able to cut education product fulfillment costs by almost 20 percent and reduce the cost of publishing and distribution while increasing customer satisfaction and reducing the delivery times.

“Our relationship is built on trust and collaboration, and HP has been a true partner to Citrix through thick and thin,” said Michael Martin, senior manager, North American Sales Readiness, Citrix Systems, Inc. ”HP has proven time and again that the success of the relationship is not only measured in the traditional sense of cost containment and improved customer and channel partner satisfaction, but in the overall success of our business.”

In August 2003, Citrix expanded its existing services relationship with HP for software product fulfillment and publishing to include business continuity and availability and disaster recovery services. With headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Citrix recognized the need for backup to ensure data protection and to keep business operations up 24x7 in case access to the Citrix facility was lost.

This investment proved invaluable two years later when Hurricane Wilma caused extensive damage to Southern Florida. Two days before the storm was expected to hit land, Citrix put the HP Operations Disaster Recovery service into action and sent eight sales personnel to HP’s software fulfillment site in Nashua, N.H. With access to its enterprise resource planning systems via HP, Citrix did not lose one second of processing or software fulfillment time.

“These awards honor relationships that are a paradigm of how outsourcing should work – built on communication, trust and empathy,” said Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, editor, Outsourcing Center. “The judges selected HP and Citrix because of how the two parties worked together; how the two parties cared enough about each other to go out of their way to keep Citrix’s business running at all costs, even in dire times. The hurricane proved that the outsourcing solution worked and demonstrated how much HP would go out of its way for Citrix.”

The Outsourcing Excellence Awards recognize IT and business process outsourcing vendors and their clients for excellent achievement. The annual program is developed by the Outsourcing Center, an online community, specializing in thought leadership, best practices and innovation in outsourcing. It is sponsored by Everest Group, its parent company, a strategic sourcing advisory firm, and Forbes Special Sections.

“Mutual trust between Citrix and HP has allowed us to expand our relationship in ways that continue to reduce operational expenses, speed time to market and improve customer satisfaction,” said Bob Shultz, vice president, Business Process Outsourcing, HP Services. “We are delighted that the industry has recognized us as model outsourcing partners working together to overcome business challenges.”

More information on HP’s software supply chain management services is available at http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/10571-0-0-225-121.html.

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 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 98 percent 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.

About HP

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2006, HP revenue totaled $88.9 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

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