Citrix to acquire Ardence

From eWeek:

Citrix Snags Embedded OS Provider Ardence
By Paula Musich
December 20, 2006

"Citrix Systems on Dec. 20 will put another piece of its Dynamic Desktop Initiative into place when it announces its planned acquisition of Ardence.

Ardence, a privately held company that markets embedded real-time operating system software and a software streaming platform for Windows and Linux, brings to the table real-time provisioning management for operating systems.

The Ardence product line offers several different opportunities for Citrix, although the primary focus will be to extend the DDI effort, according to Mike Cristinziano, vice president of strategic development at Citrix in Fort Lauderdale, Fla."

Ardence is also partnered with Dell. If trusts are transitive, does this make Citrix a Dell partner or is Dell a partner with Citrix?

Ardence Dell™ SmartClient

The Ardence Dell™ SmartClient solution increases desktop security, reliability, and manageability – and reduces total cost of ownership – by delivering Microsoft Windows XP Pro and all applications on-demand from centralized servers.

Each Ardence Dell™ SmartClient has a "virtual disk" that resides on a network server and when a SmartClient is booted-up, the operating system and applications are streamed to the desktop on-demand via the Ardence Software-Streaming Platform. Local processing and the operation of peripherals takes place on highly dependable Dell hardware.

How many more partnerships may be forth coming?

Until the next post,

Steve