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Re:Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B by usr1106 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @12:15AM (#33043816)
Myself I "grew up" in an X11 and Sun "the network is the computer" world. Have not used Citrix more than an hour, but my interpretation was that Citrix made a (huge) business out of Microsoft completely missing the network in the 90s. Both LAN and Internet. So yeah, they allow you to access a Windows computer over the net. Windows still exists so the business continues.

For Tibco I have no equivalent story to tell.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIBCO_Software gives an idea.

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Re:Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B by Slaminerag on Saturday October 01, 2022 @12:41AM (#33043942)
Tibco does/did middleware. When I used it 20 odd years ago, it provided a robust messaging system for apps across the enterprise. We used it to communicate between a half dozen systems where I worked as well as the middleware for the n-tier app I worked on, and it was pretty easy to use.
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