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[News] How Microsoft Stole Xen from Linux to Fight a War it Cannot Win

  • Subject: [News] How Microsoft Stole Xen from Linux to Fight a War it Cannot Win
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:47:32 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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.”    
| 
| 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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