Rumors of IBM or Cisco buying Citrix?

IBM is where good companies go to die

Not just companies, but Citrix projects too....not so long ago Citrix were hyping Project Kent...now its a dead and buried part of some IBM business continuity initiative that no-one knows about.

What did the AdProd guys have to say about that one?

In fairness every company has projects which don't turn out to be successful.  So I don't see your point here.

Brian was referring to the company in general.

Actually, heres a better point which kinda falls into this category.

I good few years back I worked for a company called Data General, we were pretty big and made big Windows servers, Unix servers and some proprietary stuff called AOS/VS. Along with all of this we developed some neat disk array technology called Clariion.

We were bought out by a very large and well known SAN vendor who assimilated the array technology and threw away everything else we stood for, and we had some pretty good stuff, and people!!

Now, this is called business, but which pieces of Citrix will be left after the takeover vultures have picked over the bones of the Citrix product portfolio?

Why would IBM or Cisco buy Citrix? I see completely NO REASON for it. Citrix right now is a software house of rather outdated and out-did pieces such as Access Gateway (pales in comparison with Juniper or Cisco), Presentation Server (Sooooooo old), ICA protocol (invented 15 years ago and great when we were using dialup but WAY OUT OF DATE for everpresent multimedia). The only piece really worth the effort is Xen. But then again, with KVM so much more promising that Xen why would anyone bother????

buh bye Citrix.  

The point you are missing is that whilst Juniper or Cisco have better single solutions that Citrix, as a package, if you have a Presentation Server and wants to make ACL's on your VPN concentrator, why not buy Citrix Access Gateway?  Then you unlock the potential of a full solution rather than a single device doing just one thing.

 Also in relation to ICA, um, please elaborate.  It performs better than RDP in multimedia and it is more resiliant in most if not all circumstances and has heaps of white papers backing this up.  So that I do not agree with and I think that your post is quite ill-informed.

 But in relation to either Cisco or IBM buying Citrix, the Citrix business model does not suite either of those two companies from what I can see in what they deliver and operate.

Even though Microsoft wouldn't be happy to see Citrix bought by huge vendors like Cisco/IBM but you know they are trying to acquire Yahoo with large amount of money involve and busy with they strategic plan so no ways they will take over Citrix and especially when they have Windows 2008 RemoteApp which is really nice piece and Hyper_V unless they need to compete with VMware.  Microsoft is limited to two hands and they can't grab everybody out there. 

I would like to see Cisco take over Citrix and expand their virtualization XenEnterprise products Citrix suites to be more competitive with VDI & virtualization market. Also spend tons of money on R&D efforts to revamp or work on new ideas and products that will eventually be "THE" center for all.  (management, security, load balancing solutions specifically to virtualization such as vKernel, Akorri, Expand Networks, Riverbed, Nessus, Catbird, vmSight etc..

Oh, aren't things so confusing and complicated these days!

Everything gets so tangled up! :)

"But even at what seems like a bargain price, Citrix isn't cheap: With a market cap of $6 billion and expected revenue growth of 17% to $1.63 billion this year, the stock could command a fair premium, taking the potential buyout price north of $7 billion, assuming a premium of 15%"

 http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/techsoftware/10411306.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA

Maybe Brian can get a collection going at BriForum :-)

IBM is where good companies go to die? Such a shame. We owe much of our current technology today to IBM. They pioneered the industry that let to the PCs you and I are using right now. Also, they have had a few employees over the years who have won Nobel prizes in Physics while working for them. It's sad to say how history have repaid them.

um.. i don't think a great deal of people other than your average blogger flack a-la Brian Madden does think so. Hence i wouldn't shed too many tears...

?huh? Can guest above explain what this means?

..And Brian any chance you can disable anonymous comments to the website

Rgds, Mr Anon

Cisco already have similar products.  Comparisons are WanScaler to Cisco WAAS, CAG (SSL VPN Concentrator) to the Cisco ASA (which can have SSL VPN) just to name a few.  I could not figure out why Cisco would want to double up on what they already have unless they buy a portion of the company?

Of course, this is all pure speculation. One could easily make an argument against this...just throwing around some thoughts.

Cheers!