Citrix acquires QuickTree
ConvergenceAsia staff
06/09/2007

Citrix Systems, the provider of application delivery infrastructure, has announced it has acquired QuickTree, a small privately-held software technology provider on the forefront of addressing the key security and performance challenges of XML and web services.

The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Effective immediately, QuickTree employees, including CEO Raghu Bathina, will join the Citrix teams in Santa Clara, California and Bangalore, India, reporting into the Application Networking Group.

Citrix continues to research, develop and acquire leading technologies that give the company a unique position in the market, solving the complete end-to-end application delivery challenge for companies of all sizes, said Klaus Oestermann, vice president and general manager for application networking at Citrix. "As Web 2.0 technologies for the enterprise emerge, we see the increasing need for the entire application delivery infrastructure to be more XML-fluent."

This move will further strengthen Citrix’s end-to-end application delivery infrastructure by enabling it to incorporate more robust XML processing capabilities across the Citrix application networking product line, which includes Citrix NetScaler, Citrix WANScaler and Citrix Access Gateway and is focused on the acceleration, optimisation and secure accessibility of applications.

Citrix will integrate the QuickTree technology into the AppExpert policy framework used by its application networking products to configure application-specific and user-specific policies. The new XML-fluent AppExpert capabilities will first be applied to the company’s NetScaler product line, enhancing its application traffic management, attack defence and optimisation features.

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