![]() ![]() Since the mid-1990s, he has worked for UBM's InformationWeek, TechWeb and Computer Reseller News. He has deep and wide experience in tech journalism. Representatives of Citrix and the Cloud Software Group declined to be interviewed for this article.Īntone Gonsalves is the news director for the Networking Media Group. Citrix acquired Wrike last year for $2.25 billion.Ĭitrix planned to integrate Wrike's project management software into Workspace, Citrix's SaaS for delivering business applications to corporate employees. Vista and Elliott Investment Management - Evergreen's parent - considered selling one of Citrix's businesses named Wrike, Bloomberg reported this month. The latter blends data science, streaming data capture, and visual analysis in a single product that feeds the vendor's Spotfire business intelligence platform. There are also synergies between both companies' products.Ĭitrix's security and network analytics could prove valuable to Tibco's Hyperconverged Analytics, analysts said. TIBCO is a data management and analytics supplier that Vista acquired in 2014 for $4.3 billion.Ĭitrix offers TIBCO access to a customer base more extensive than its own, analysts said. Citrix, which has 400,000 customers and 100 million users globally, provides a digital workspace and application delivery platform. In January, Evergreen and Vista said they would acquire Citrix and combine it with TIBCO. "Until they do, they are creating unintended competition with their real partners," Whiteside said. Whiteside was skeptical that Citrix appreciated the difference between a partner that fulfills orders and a value-added reseller that resells technology that makes the core product more helpful to customers. "I still have concerns that Citrix plans to sell directly to their customers above 5,000 employees, which is going to create competition with their partners and ultimately distrust," said Andy Whiteside, XenTegra president and CEO. XenTegra provides managed services for Citrix products, such as its desktop-as-a-service technology. The information void on the direction of the Citrix-Tibco merger had one Citrix partner, XenTegra, on edge. Mullapudi was chief product officer at Citrix, and Quinn was TIBCO's COO. Named as general managers for Citrix and TIBCO were Sridhar Mullapudi and Matt Quinn, respectively. "We are excited to create a new global leader in enterprise software, designed for scale and growth, through the combination of Citrix and TIBCO," Krauss said in a statement. Instead, it listed the management team led by CEO Tom Krause, former president of semiconductor company Broadcom. The Cloud Software Group's website provided no details on the combined company's products. ![]()
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