Virtualization Market Reshapes
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| "We prefer more freeware and open source," said Christopher Boone, CEO of
| AppCentral Technologies, in San Francisco. "We had considered XenSource in
| the past, but we have a partnership with Microsoft and use their [free
| virtualization technology]…I think we will see a lot of consolidation in this
| space. EMC's acquisition of VMware and now the IPO and its performance [are]
| indicative of the market's appetite for this kind of technology."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2175919,00.asp
Does Citrix Have A Chance Against VMware In Virtualization?
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| “VMware will probably not be able to maintain its extreme domination in the
| server virtualization market forever,” Kumar writes, “but there is not other
| realistic competition right now. Microsoft is far behind and everybody else,
| including XenSource, is a speck on the horizon.”
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http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/08/27/does-citrix-have-a-chance-against-vmware-in-virtualization/?mod=yahoobarrons
http://tinyurl.com/35bvcg
Related:
Shareholders Sue Over Alleged Backdating by Citrix Systems Execs
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| A year after John C. Burris was hired as senior vice president of Citrix
| Systems, the company's compensation committee granted him options for 42,000
| shares of company stock valued at $15.69 a share, according to court
| documents.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1187859734781
Will Microsoft Buy the New Citrix?
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| VMware, holding some 85 percent of the market, with its VI3 technologies
| offers a fully integrated stack and represents a third generation of
| virtualization technology, while Viridian and Xen-based products, including
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, XenEnterprise
| and Virtual Iron, remain second-generation products, the report stated.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2171434,00.asp
What the XenSource deal says about open source
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| This is what Citrix is paying for. That and a close relationship with
| Microsoft that looks likely to get closer. “We will be building dynamic
| virtualization services and management tools on top of Viridian,” Levine
| added. “We will build the same set of products we’ve built on top of Xen for
| Viridian. We’ve already hired a team to go do that up in Redmond.”
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| While Citrix maintained it will continue support for the Xen project, this
| deal is not about a proprietary vendor getting open source religion. It's
| about grabbing an emerging player in a rapidly expanding sector of the
| market.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/08/what_the_xensou.html
Increasing Virtualization Insanity
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| For sysadmin types this means: do what you have to do with Xen for now. But
| keep the investments small. For developers this means: don't let yourself be
| tied to a platform. Use an abstraction layer such as libvirt to bridge over
| the differences. For architects this means: don't looking to Xen for answers,
| base your new designs on KVM.
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http://udrepper.livejournal.com/17577.html
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