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[News] Analyst: Microsoft Uses Citrix as Proxy to Avoid GPL Contact?

  • Subject: [News] Analyst: Microsoft Uses Citrix as Proxy to Avoid GPL Contact?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:35:00 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Citrix Buys VMware Rival XenSource; Will Someone Now Buy Citrix?

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| They note that Citrix built its core application delivery infrastructure 
| business “on the back of its access to Microsoft source code.” XenSource, 
| they note, in 2006 cut an exclusive deal for access to Microsoft’s fothcoming 
| Viridian “hypervisor.”   
| 
| [...]
| 
| The 451 analysts also ask whether the deal could be prelude to Microsoft 
| buying Citrix. “That way, Microsoft distances itself from the awkward GPL 
| aspects of what XenSource does, fuses it own server consolidation story into 
| a credible ‘virtualization desktop utility’ stack...   
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http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/08/15/citrix-buys-vmware-rival-xensource-will-someone-now-buy-citrix/?mod=yahoobarrons
http://tinyurl.com/ytso4w

Microsoft still manipulates the market with the money and escapes antitrust
using dirty tricks?

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