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Jan 22nd 2000: Citrix announced 31 new partner ASPs, added support for Unix applications, and released high-growth year-end financial results this week. High-profile ASP startup Corio and IT services giant IBM Global Services were the most striking new additions to the Citrix iBusiness ASP programme, which now numbers 45 qualified participants. Membership entitles providers to use Citrix ASP data centre software on a pay-as-you-go licence that relates monthly payments to actual usage. This week's long-awaited announcement of MetaFrame for Unix extends the vendor's terminal server technology beyond its traditional core arena of delivering MS Windows-based applications. The product enables application providers to deliver X.11, Java and text-based applications to thin clients - including Web browsers and Windows terminals - using the Citrix ICA protocol. Existing application code does not normally need modification, since the MetaFrame software translates client sessions from the native X.11 client protocol. Citrix believes its new platform brings two significant advantages. Firstly, it means ICA-capable clients can now simultaneously access applications running on both Windows and Unix platforms. Secondly, it allows providers to run Java client software on Unix servers and serve the application sessions to ICA-capable thin-client devices, rather than overwhelming them with locally-executed Java code. Since ICA is significantly less bandwidth-hungry than X.11, this means it can deliver higher-spec applications to mobile and Internet appliances. The first implementation of MetaFrame for Unix will be available in March for Sun's Solaris operating system. Support for other Unix environments will follow later. Announcing annual revenues up 62% over last year at $403.3m, Citrix said it will execute a two-for-one stock split in the form of a stock dividend in mid-February. Net income for the year was $130.2m. The results slightly exceeded financial analysts' expectations. The providers joining the iBusiness scheme cover a range of backgrounds, markets and geographies. They include established US ASPs such as Corio, Cylex, IBM, Mi8, Push Computing and Thinter.net; specialist ASPs such as library industry provider epixtech and combined telecoms and IT provider e.Nova; several consumer market ASP startups including C Me Run, founded by former Futurelink CEO Cameron Chell; European ASPs aspiserve and Prologue Software from France, Alfaskop from Sweden, Netherlands-based EurAsiaCrossing, and Integration and ASP Global from the UK. The full list of thirty-one newcomers is as follows:
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