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Dec. 31, 2012

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

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ORGANIZATION

Citrix Systems, Inc. ("Citrix" or the "Company"), is a Delaware corporation founded on April 17, 1989. Citrix is a cloud computing company that enables mobile workstyles; empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere, accessing enterprise applications and data on any of the latest devices, as easily as they would in their own office; simply and securely. Citrix cloud computing solutions help IT and service providers build both private and public clouds, leveraging virtualization and networking technologies to deliver high-performance, elastic and cost-effective services for mobile workstyles.

Citrix markets and licenses its products directly to enterprise customers, over the Web, and through systems integrators ("SIs"), in addition to indirectly through value-added resellers ("VARs"), value-added distributors ("VADs") and original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs").