Business Software Growth. Business Ideas, From Some small and mid cap business software makers posted quarterly results to beat market. The company, which develops virtualization software that allows a single computer to act like many virtual machines, it saw some customers delaying decisions on new capital purchases, but its desktop business pipeline looked good.

Citrix would benefit from Windows 7 refreshes. Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Citrix’s shares were down as much as 2 percent at $57.50 extended trading then it closed at $58.42. CA, which competes with blue chips in mainframe computing products, with VMware and Citrix Systems in cloud computing and Symantec and McAfee in Web security, has also been shoring up its cloud computing offerings through several recent acquisitions.