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
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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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