Citrix Systems Provides Critical Backbone to Athlete Medical Support Systems at the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced its further contribution of additional licenses to power and secure the delivery of the Special Olympics’ medical record systems called Medical Encounter Software (MES), in addition to the reliable and cost effective delivery of the Game Management Systems (GMS) application, to all of the 22 sporting venues for over 7,500 athletes in the coming 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games to be held in Shanghai on October 2 – 11, 2007.

The MES holds the critical medical histories and records for each of the 7,500 athletes from more than 160 participating countries at the World Games, and is centrally hosted and delivered securely via Citrix application delivery infrastructure to disparate devices at all 70 competition, special event and housing venues located across 19 Shanghai Districts.

“The 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai is the largest sporting event in the world this calendar year, and gathering over 7,500 athletes, will be the largest Special Olympics World Games ever. It is therefore extremely important that we engage a reliable world-class technology vendor such as Citrix Systems to provide the crucial backbone of application delivery infrastructure for both our critical Medical Encounter Software as well as the Game Management Systems,” said Andre Mendes, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Special Olympics. “The goal of Special Olympics is to improve the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities through sport, and Citrix Systems plays a key role in supporting this goal. By delivering the mission-critical applications to PCs and other devices regardless of their hardware specifications and bandwidth available, it enables our medical teams to address the medical needs of the our athletes regardless of their location.”

The MES software is provided by Health One Global, the exclusive Special Olympics Healthy Athletes® Global Partner for electronic health records. Dr. Stan Shepherd, Chairman of Health One Global added, “In the past World Games, medical history information had to be manually faxed to the medical headquarters whenever an athlete needed medical attention. Now with Citrix application delivery infrastructure powering and securing the MES, we can easily access real time information and provide the much needed medical care and attention for all our Special Olympics athletes. This saves us a lot of time and makes a substantial difference in our efficiency while simultaneously contributing to the quality of care and speed of recovery for our athletes.”

Citrix contribution of the application delivery infrastructure solutions include 260 concurrent user licenses of Presentation Server, Enterprise Edition that centralize all the applications including the mission-critical Medical Encounter Software (MES) and Games Management Systems (GMS), as well as 780 concurrent user licenses of the award-winning Citrix Access Gateway™1 - a pair of universal SSL VPN appliances that provide secure, always-on, single point-of-access that allow real-time updates and access of medical records and game results from any device, location and network. The 2007 World Summer Games are supported by Citrix Consultants in the design and implementation of Citrix solutions, as well as Citrix Technical Support Engineers on-site to ensure smooth running of the operation during the World Games.

“The 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games is an unprecedented event and Citrix is pleased to be part of this historic humanitarian experience with our application delivery infrastructure and technical support contributions,” said Dennis Rose, Vice President – Pacific, Citrix Systems, Inc. “With the World Games aptly themed as I know I can, our tried-and-tested solutions powering this global event for the fourth time provide the assurance of fundamental reliability and availability to not only the medical doctors and IT support teams, but also for the special athletes and their families. This gives them the peace of mind to show their limitless potential to the spectators all over the world.”

About the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games

Special Olympics is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering individuals with intellectual disabilities to become physically fit, productive and respected members of society through sports training and competition. Founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and competition to 2.5 million adults and children with intellectual disabilities across 165 countries. The Special Olympics movement offers one of the world's greatest platforms for acceptance and inclusion for all people -- regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or cultural differences. Find out how you can become involved at www.specialolympics.org.

About Health One Global Limited

Health One Global Limited is the developer and distributor of HEALTHone, (BETTERHEALTHrecord in the USA), an electronic health records system used in 18 different medical specialties in UK, Ireland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, South Africa, and USA). Health One Global Limited is the exclusive Special Olympics Healthy Athletes Global Partner for electronic health records and provides HEALTHone to Special Olympics for Medical Encounter Software (MES) to hold critical medical histories and records of athletes attending Games and for Healthy Athletes Software (HAS) to collect healthcare screening data from 600 events in 65 countries each year including the World Summer Games in Dublin, Ireland in 2003, the World Winter Games in Nagano, Japan in 2005 and the upcoming World Summer Games in Shanghai, China in 2007, in a single global database, set to become the world’s richest and most comprehensive health database for citizens with intellectual disability.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion.

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1 Citrix Access Gateway™ is positioned in the leader’s quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for SSL VPNs, Q306” report by Gartner, Inc.