RealScale Technologies Becomes a Charter Member of the Citrix Business Alliance

Maker of the i-Cluster High-Availability Intel®-based Blade Server Platform to Bring Citrix Application Server Solutions to Their Customers

Sophia Antipolis, France - November 7th 2001 - RealScale Technologies today announced it has become a charter member of the Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) Citrix Business Alliance (CBA), a growing coalition of industry vendors who are working with Citrix to develop complementary products and markets for application server software.

Becoming a CBA member is an important step forward in the market positioning of RealScale Technologies. By joining the Citrix Business Alliance and integrating Citrix MetaFrame XP on our i-Cluster Blade Server platform, we will deliver to our customers high availability, impressive flexibility and substantial cost reduction in appliance provisioning," said Jean-Christophe Pari, CTO of Realscale Technologies.

"The addition of RealScale Technologies to the CBA strengthens our strategy of offering customers the widest possible array of technologies that support a server-based computing environment," said Garry Olah, director, corporate development, partner programs for Citrix." Working together, we hope to meet customer demands for appliance provisioning based on Blade Server platforms that can further enhance our offerings."

With the i-Cluster innovative Blade Server platform, RealScale Technologies enables Enterprises and xSPs to deploy a more rational, efficient, flexible and highly available appliance server environment. RealScales major contribution is to allow them to consistently deliver the highest level of services, while successfully reducing their IT environment complexity and their Total Cost of Application Provisioning.

About the Citrix Business Alliance

The Citrix Business Alliance (CBA) is a growing coalition of industry-leading companies from across the technology spectrum that are working with Citrix solutions to broaden the scope and effectiveness of server-based enterprise computing solutions. The program provides members with access to Citrix products for compatibility testing with Citrix® MetaFrame* application server software, new business opportunities with other Citrix solution providers, access to joint marketing programs and enhanced technical support.

About RealScale Technologies

RealScale Technologies, Inc. is a pioneer and leader of Blade Server Technology. Early in 2000, RealScale released the i-Cluster, the first patent pending Intel®-based Blade Server platform. Today RealScale delivers to Enterprises, Service Providers and OEMs the most comprehensive range of Blade Servers in the market. RealScale brings to its clients the most open, flexible and scalable managed Blade Server platform based on an industry proven server architecture (Intel®-based) while enabling unequalled availability, high server density and extremely low power consumption. Founded in 1997 by Serge Dujardin and Jean-Christophe Pari, the companys European headquarters are located in Sophia Antipolis, France.

RealScale Technologies and i-Cluster are trademarks of RealScale Technologies Inc. and its affiliates. Citrix®, MetaFrame®, MetaFrame XP and Citrix Business Alliance are registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

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RealScale Technologies, Inc.
Serge Dujardin, President
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