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| Name | Ardence, a Citrix Company |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Key people | Stephen M. Woodard, Vice President, Product Line Executive, OEM/Embedded Group |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Number of employees | 104 (2006) |
Ardence, a Citrix Company, is a technology company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with representatives in Washington, D.C.; Virginia Beach, VA; Chicago, IL; Denton, TX; and Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. It develops a software-streaming product and an embedded OEM development platform. On December 20, 2006, Citrix Systems Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence. The enterprise software-streaming product deploys Microsoft Windows, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux and Turbolinux operating systems, along with all their applications, on demand from networked storage. It allows any x86-based computer - desktop, server, or device - to be provisioned, or re-provisioned from bare metal. The core technology behind the software streaming product is a device driver for the selected operating system, which mounts a virtual disk over a custom UDP protocol. Basically, computers are configured to netboot a kernel that contains this device driver.