<story><title>Citrix to be acquired for $16.5B, will be merged with Tibco</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/31/citrix-to-be-acquired-by-vista-and-evergreen-elliott-in-a-16-5b-all-cash-deal-will-be-merged-with-tibco-to-create-saas-powerhouse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nikanj</author><text>My developer experience with Citrix last year:&lt;p&gt;1) Contact Citrix support about some missing details in their SDK (Dynamic Virtual Channels were not loading properly on XenDesktop, and the SDK docs just said &amp;quot;Use the Microsoft APIs for registration&amp;quot;)&lt;p&gt;2) Citrix ponders about the issue for a few months. I write a full DVC plugin for them to test things with, because they don&amp;#x27;t seem to have anyone in-house who knows their own tech stack&lt;p&gt;3) Citrix finally declares that dynamic virtual channels are currently broken. They might get fixed in a future release, but they&amp;#x27;re not on the active roadmap.&lt;p&gt;4) Citrix is still releasing frequent updates to the SDK, advertising DVC support. NB this is not just a small typo in the docs, they have a long chapter dedicated to the topic ( Citrix Dynamic Virtual Channel Protocol at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;citrix&amp;#x2F;receiver-for-windows-virtual-channel-sdk&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;architecture.md&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;citrix&amp;#x2F;receiver-for-windows-virtual-chann...&lt;/a&gt; ). The feature is very thoroughly documented, it&amp;#x27;s just...not actually implemented.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t imagine how many developer hours get wasted yearly with people trying to get virtual channels to work, when in reality they&amp;#x27;re just flat-out not supported.</text></comment>
<story><title>Citrix to be acquired for $16.5B, will be merged with Tibco</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/31/citrix-to-be-acquired-by-vista-and-evergreen-elliott-in-a-16-5b-all-cash-deal-will-be-merged-with-tibco-to-create-saas-powerhouse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duck</author><text>I interviewed at Citrix 20+ years ago for my first SWE job out of college. The first phone interview went well, but on the second one I was surprised to find the interviewer was asking the exact same questions, word for word. After a couple of them I mentioned it, thinking maybe this was a mistake and the interviewer said that wasn&amp;#x27;t the case, and then proceeded to ask me the rest of the same questions. After I told them the answer to the next question before they asked it there was a real long pause on their side and then they asked the remaining questions in a different order. Needless to say I wasn&amp;#x27;t as excited about working there after that, but they never called me back either.</text></comment>