Welcoming the New Kid on the Software Block
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| VMware's biggest rival, in other words, is being acquired by a company with
| deeper pockets, a large customer set and ties to the only other outfit that
| VMware has to worry about: the big boys up in Redmond. (Analysts at the 451
| Group, a research firm, last week speculated that Microsoft might buy Citrix,
| but Citrix officials downplay the idea.)
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http://online.barrons.com/article/SB118681250190995079.html?mod=yahoobarrons&ru=yahoo
Virtual Iron Gussies Up Virtualization Offering
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| To help get the virtualization-shy, first-timer in the door, it offers its
| Version 4 Single Server Edition gratis. This package provides one virtual
| CPU, up to 12 virtual servers, local disk storage and access to the Novell
| SLES 10 kernel and drivers, giving users all the benefits of complete Novell
| certification and support for all hardware supported by Novell in SUSE Linux
| Enterprise Server.
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http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3697496
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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
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