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Citrix has announced that it will not deliver the financial results it promised the markets. “Revenue for the quarter is expected to be in the range of $755 million to $760 million, below the company's guidance of $780 million to $790 million,” says in its mea culpa preliminary Q1 results released today. “Net income for the …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    If I were Mark T, I would

    1. Protect my 'used-to-be-loyal, but now-sorta-fickle' install base -- get everyone to the latest and greatest version of XD/XA. Make them less vulnerable to VMware

    2. Go after new accounts in verticals -- healthcare, education, government sector, financial services, etc -- working with infrastructure vendors like the big boys (Cisco, HP, Dell, Lenovo, EMC, etc) and upstarts (Nimble, Nutanix, etc)

    3. Kill XenServers -- as much as this would pain Citrix XenServer is done. Don't let it distract.

    4. Invest in cloud services -- AWS style services (everyone is on the go).

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  2. Scott 62

    if they put as much effort into everything else as they do rebranding their entire line of products every couple of years they'd probably be in a better position :P

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Will they now be sacking the senior management. ..

    ... with the same vigor they used on the staff during their 'restructuring'.

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