WASHINGTON, DC (June 4, 2001), – The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) today announced a partnership with Bantu, Inc., which will enable its more than 3,500 faculty, students, researchers, and staff to collaborate online in real time. Bantu’s Presence and Instant Messaging (IM) Platform is integrated into Citrix Systems, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: CTXS) XPS™ portal software, which the School is deploying as its global research and collaboration portal.

“Bantu’s instant messaging and presence technologies bring a powerful new dimension to our academic and research collaboration programs,” said Ross McKenzie, director of information systems for the BSPH. “Members of our educational community will now be able to see which of their professors, students or colleagues are present online, and instantly communicate with them in real time – whether they’re here in Baltimore, across the country, or around the world.”

Last fall, as part of a major information systems overhaul, the Bloomberg School selected XPS as the platform for a portal that would facilitate interaction and collaboration among its users. Although Citrix only recently began offering Bantu’s Presence & IM Platform as an optional feature for enhancing person-to-person collaboration through XPS, McKenzie had been eager to include IM in the Bloomberg School’s XPS implementation. “The fact that it was Web-based, secure, and extremely quick to implement, made Bantu an easy choice for us,”said McKenzie. “We knew Citrix had thoroughly reviewed other IM products and chosen Bantu, so we were confident it was a solid solution.”

"Citrix is very pleased to share the Bloomberg School as a joint customer with Bantu,” said Barry Davis, vice president, Business Development. “Our alliance provides customers with an innovative and important communication tool that can enhance collaboration and productivity, and also reflects Citrix’s commitment to building strong business relationships that will enhance XPS and our ability to meet the needs of our customers.”

“This first success resulting from our alliance with Citrix demonstrates how valuable presence and IM are when integrated into business portals,” said Larry Schlang, president and CEO of Bantu. “Partnering with Citrix leverages the strengths of both products to benefit customers like the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School.”

About Citrix XPS Portal Software: XPS, Citrix System’s XML-pure portal software, lets businesses of all sizes streamline and automate complicated business operations, and provides a single window through which anyone in the enterprise can interact with partners, vendors, customers and fellow employees in real time, achieving results in seconds instead of days. Built upon an XML server that provides support for massive numbers of users and volumes of data, XPS combines the attributes of flexibility and significant out-of-the-box functionality, easing adoption and deployment. XPS extends Citrix’s vision of the virtual workplace offering users secure access to virtually any application and data source through Internet-enabled PCs and wireless devices. For more information, please visit http://www.citrix.com/.

The Bloomberg School of Public Health: The Bloomberg School of Public Health (formerly the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health) was founded in 1916 as the world's first stand-alone school of public health and remains the world's largest in terms of students, faculty, and research funding. For more information, see http://www.jhsph.edu/.

About Bantu, Inc.: \ban' too\ 1 : Swahili word for "The People;" 2 : Leading provider of secure, platform-independent, instant communications technology for enterprise software and services companies. Bantu's Presence & IM Platform is the first instant messaging solution that easily integrates into enterprise software and services, enhancing their competitiveness. Based on patent-pending techniques, Bantu Messenger combines simple-to-use functionality with customizable, interoperable technology. Bantu Messenger interoperates with other IM Networks, including MSN, Yahoo! and ICQ. Bantu is based in Washington, D.C., and boasts an impressive customer list including Citrix (Sequoia Software), the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), HighWired, SageMaker (Divine), SAIC, Sprint, and Texas Instruments. To learn more, visit http://www.bantu.com/.