HP Client Virtualization with Citrix XenDesktop

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is announcing the transition of the HP OEM offerings for Citrix XenDesktop 4 to Citrix retail offerings starting January 15th, 2011. The Citrix-HP relationship is very broad and many partnerships exist with different business units across HP's entire product portfolio. HP will continue qualifying and supporting Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix XenServer on ProLiant servers.

Important date to note:

• Jan 15, 2011 - Last date for sale of HP OEM offerings of Citrix XenDesktop

Customers can continue to use the Citrix XenDesktop HP OEM offering as long as it continues to meet their needs. If they purchased from HP they are entitled to 1 year Technical Support (9x5) and to download the latest product version upgrades available during this same period.

There is no change in the mode of obtaining product updates, hotfixes and patches for existing customers. For product updates, please visit http://software.hp.com to download the latest product versions. For hotfixes and patches released by Citrix, please keep checking http://support.citrix.com

Existing customers can obtain the new Citrix XenDesktop 5 and any further updates to Citrix XenDesktop from http://software.hp.com once made available by HP.