Windows Goes Xen--by Proxy
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| While I typically associate Xen with Linux—since Linux is the platform on
| which Xen was born and on which Xen is most often deployed—the folks at
| XenSource have their aim focused most keenly on Windows. On the Citrix
| investor call Aug. 15, XenSource President and CEO Peter Levine summed up
| that focus well. "Our product focus is to provide the best Microsoft Windows
| virtualization experience on the market," he said.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2175521,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Tom gets a bit of criticism for the following post:
Time to Write About Something Besides Redmond
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| Redmond? So what. Let them do what they do. We need to do something other
| than write about all their transgressions - real or imagined.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000273
Yes, let's just ignore them when they use SCO to launch billion-dollar lawsuits
against Linux. Let's ignore their brand new anti-Linux site which
replaces "Get the Facts".
Related:
Is it time to fork Xen?
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| In other words, XenSource's future with Citrix is Windows and helping
| Microsoft. Sounds like a fork-worthy situation to me.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9764946-7.html
XenSource's Levine And Citrix's Wasson Explain Future Virtualization Moves
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| We started in parallel with the acquisition discussions to elevate the Xen
| project and community by appointing a panel to provide oversight during the
| transition. It will maintain a distinction between the open source code and
| commercial efforts. ... We are working on that collaboratively with IBM,
| Intel, HP, Novell, and Red Hat. We are just coming up with a model for that
| in the next 45 to 60 days. The industry absolutely wants us to do that.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201801595&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
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
Cringely the Unemployable on the fallacy of Web 2.0, Microsoft ruthlessness,
and the CB radio of our decade
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| Davidson: Which software company would you hate to compete against? What
| makes you single them out?
|
| Cringely: Microsoft of course. They have the deepest of pockets, unlimited
| ambition, and they are willing to lose money for years and years just to make
| sure that you don't make any money, either. And they are mean, REALLY mean.
|
| Davidson: Why do you think Microsoft is mean? Are you implying some kind of
| malicious intent rather than just ruthlessness?
|
| Cringely: Maybe "mean" is the wrong word to use for Microsoft. "Ruthless" is
| good. The company is built in the image of Bill Gates and Bill is a guy who
| gets caught-up in the game of business and doesn't typically see its personal
| cost. To use what might seem to be an obscure example, just look at all the
| various partnerships and industry consortia that Microsoft has announced
| through the years that never produced a product or even a usable
| specification. There have been literally dozens of these operations that are
| intended solely to freeze the competition until Microsoft can figure what the
| heck it actually wants to do. To Microsoft its a PR exercise that helps them
| compete but to customers it is just a damned lie. That's ruthless. There are
| plenty of other examples I can give but you get the point. I represent the
| concerns of users, not vendors, and Microsoft doesn't really care about
| users.
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http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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