Of the dozens of companies we've acquired, we've screwed most up (Bytemobile, Sanbolic, Octoblu, AppDNA,Cloud, Virtual Computer etc) because no acquisition had a sound and reasonable plan on how to take these ventures and develop them into profit making streams.
GoTo seems to be the only one that did fine, primarily they were left alone and Citrix was not dinking with their approach and strategy.
Can we fire someone for this?
Any news on the many senior directors in data science?
ShareFile has been fairly successful but not really due to anything Citrix has done. The core sales team still doesn't talk about it, apparently multi-billion dollar markets aren't interesting to them or they don't know how to compete in a market with competition. I expect a thinning of the Raleigh team this week and then we'll see how long the revenue lasts and things take a turn for the worse. ShareFile would be better without Citrix IMO.
All the people responsible for those acquisitions are long gone from Citrix. Feel better? Didn't think so.
@jzt - no, ViaB never went anywhere. The technology was too different from XD to integrate, and the lack of an upgrade path from ViaB to XD meant that it wasn't a viable sale. Gabe covered it pretty well http://searchvirtualdesktop.techtarget.com/opinion/What-went-wrong-for-Citrix-VDI-in-a-Box
Did anything from VDI-in-a-box get leveraged in anything? It had some technology that had potential.
@kht truen on AppDNA, not familiar with Octoblu
Octoblu was intended to be a middle later to allow Citrix software/hardware to seamlessly communicate with each other and hardware. They were attempting to build out that functionality but it was extremely strangled. I believe just one or two developers had the mammoth task of building that out. It didn't happen in three months and was tossed to the side.
AppDNA was a good purchase but was horribly executed/managed. So much potential, but the AppDNA management kept trying to dig their feet into the ground to prevent changes - they joined Citrix thinking they were just going to get a paycheck and be kept alone.
The platform of AppDNA could have been so much more.