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Citrix Online and BT Conferencing Alliance Brings Best-in-Class Audio to New GoToWebinar Service Tailored to SMBs; Industry First Do-It-Yourself Web Event Service Includes 6,000 Minutes of Toll-Free Audio

Posted on: Thursday, 15 June 2006, 12:00 CDT

Citrix Online today announced a strategic alliance with BT Conferencing to offer toll-free audio service to all Citrix(R) GoToWebinar(TM) customers with the announcement by Citrix of the first online web-event solution purpose-built for small and medium-sized companies. Citrix GoToWebinar users will be able to reach their target audiences online by easily scheduling and delivering unlimited webinars supported by BT Conferencing's high quality toll-free audio service. Citrix Online is a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, and BT Conferencing is a division of BT Group plc, one of the world's leading telecommunications companies.

Toll-free audio is an integral part of the only do-it-yourself web-event service that allows businesses to easily conduct sales, marketing and training presentations for large audiences online. For a limited time, Citrix Online is offering 6,000 free BT Conferencing domestic toll-free minutes to every new GoToWebinar customer. After using their allocation of free audio minutes, businesses can continue the BT Conferencing toll-free service for the audio portion of their GoToWebinar events at favored pricing with savings up to 50 percent.

"We are very pleased to team with Citrix Online in offering a truly innovative web conferencing product," says Jack Blaeser, General Manager, U.S. for BT Conferencing. "With audio from BT Conferencing, GoToWebinar customers will enjoy superior voice quality and exemplary customer service as part of their web event experience."

"Businesses are searching for simple and affordable collaboration solutions for getting their marketing messages out to large audiences online," says Brett Caine, Group Vice President and General Manager, Citrix Online Division. "The combined strengths and experience of BT Conferencing and Citrix Online's simpler-is-better approach enable us to deliver the easiest, fastest and most reliable webinar solution on the market."

Citrix(R) GoToWebinar(TM) is the first do-it-yourself webinar solution so simple to use that anyone can conduct online events from their PC for sales, marketing and training purposes. "All You Can Reach(TM)" licensing includes planning, presentation and reporting functions for one flat fee with no hidden charges, bringing online events within reach of any size business. The user-friendly feature set supports up to 1,000 attendees per event. Designed specifically for webinars and larger online events, GoToWebinar combines ease-of-use performance with advanced security and industry standard encryption for maximum privacy and data protection.

Citrix GoToWebinar will be available beginning June 30. For more information prior to the June 30th on-sale date, please visit www.gotowebinar.com/nyc.

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 www.citrix.com.

Citrix(R) and GoToWebinar(TM) are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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