Channel brushes off Citrix investor broadside

Jack Gilbert
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Calls from Elliot Management for a channel and strategy overhaul given short shrift by some partners

Last week Citrix received a roasting from its activist investor Elliot Management which attacked the software giant for a number of its strategies. Among the criticisms levelled at Citrix was th...

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