SEATTLE, March 12, 2008 – Attachmate Corporation today announced that Attachmate® Reflection® for IBM® 2007 has been vendor-validated for Citrix XenApp (previously known as Citrix Presentation Server) in the Citrix Ready program, becoming the first terminal emulation product to be Citrix Ready vendor-validated for Citrix XenApp. Attachmate, a decade-long Citrix partner, allows Citrix customers seamless and secure access to legacy applications wherever and whenever access is required.
Attachmate provides reliable, secure connectivity from Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Linux and UNIX desktop clients, through Citrix XenApp to mainframe-based mission critical applications via Attachmate’s Reflection, EXTRA!®, and INFOConnect® terminal emulation offerings.
The Citrix Ready vendor-validation affirms that Attachmate Reflection for IBM 2007 has been validated to work with Citrix XenApp. In addition to providing vendors with a verification process through which they can demonstrate compatibility with Citrix solutions, Citrix is backing its Citrix Ready program with marketing efforts to drive visibility and demand for participating vendors’ products.
“Attaining the Citrix Ready validation for Attachmate’s new-generation host access products is a testament to our commitment to building applications for the Citrix platform,” said Paul Neutz, director of business development at Attachmate. “Our long-term partnership with Citrix has resulted in business value to partners and joint customers, who directly benefit from better products designed for Citrix environments.”
Joint customers of Attachmate and Citrix XenApp achieve the following benefits:
- Centralized installation, deployment and updates of Attachmate software;
- Enhanced user mobility from location-to-location, workstation-to-workstation and device-to-device while maintaining secure and reliable host access; and,
- Ultimate flexibility in delivering terminal emulation through Citrix-architecture, including multi-platform ICA clients, and Web browser-based access.
Attachmate EXTRA!, INFOConnect, Reflection and Reflection for the Web give users of Citrix XenApp network access to legacy applications and data residing on virtually any legacy host system, including IBM System z, IBM System i, UNIX, OpenVMS, HP, Unisys, Airlines, and Tandem. Reflection 2007 is fully optimized for Citrix XenApp and has been validated Citrix Ready.
For additional information regarding how Attachmate’s host access products are optimized for Citrix environments, visit www.attachmate.com/Partners/Strategic+Partners/technology_partners/citrix-tech-alliance.htm or www.citrix.com/English/ps2/citrixready/partner.asp?contentID=1339522.
Attachmate EXTRA!, INFOConnect and Reflection are part of Attachmate’s terminal emulation and secure host access product family, providing secure connections to any host from any desktop, inside or outside the firewall. With Reflection’s robust Web- and Windows-based products, customers can meet their host access needs while maximizing IT flexibility and safeguarding critical business data. Attachmate Reflection works collaboratively or as a stand-alone tool along with the company’s host access, security and management products, enabling companies to extend the use of existing IT investments while adopting valuable new technologies to improve their business.
For over 25 years, Attachmate has developed industry-leading products that are installed on over 16 million systems worldwide. Attachmate’s entire range of solutions are backed by an award-winning team of highly trained and tenured service professionals who possess, on average, more than nine years of experience supporting Attachmate products. Organizations are switching to Attachmate and are realizing management, productivity and cost benefits in the process.
About Attachmate
Attachmate, owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Cressey Bravo, enables IT organizations to extend mission critical services and assure they are managed, secure and compliant. Attachmate’s leading solutions include host connectivity, systems and security management, and PC lifecycle management. Our goal is to empower IT organizations to deliver trusted applications, manage service levels, and ensure compliance by leveraging knowledge, automation and secured connectivity. For more information, visit www.attachmate.com.