[THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE
- From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:44:04 +0000
Oh one more thing, lets see who gets their finger out first to do shared
storage out of the box. (Yes, I know RedHat has it with GFS, but I haven't
exactly heard of a lot of people using it)
VMWare supports this now with their FS (VMFS) on EMC and NetApp.
2009/2/20 Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Xen in different flavours can be gotten from anywhere. MS is giving it away
> with Windows 2003 R2, Xen is available in multiple Linux kernels and
> distributions. So effectively, yes, it is free now.
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> VMWare have given out ESXi for nothing, but it's the management tools that
> cost (VMotion etc)
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> If Citrix release all their management tools and everything else for
> nothing, then the problem for VMWare then becomes "What are you guys
> selling, and why should I buy it?". Mind you, that would effectively destroy
> the market.
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> Berny
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> 2009/2/20 Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> But essentially its free **now** isn't it – its free for servers if
>> you're not going to do any management on them?
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>> The hypervisor component is a mere bagatelle imo .. all the major players
>> are looking to support the same image type – its essentially 'all cars run
>> on petrol' –it's the management of the virtual services, the feeding and the
>> watering of them for enterprise solutions – that's where the development and
>> license cost is going to go ... as well as services obviously.
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>> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
>> Behalf Of *Greg Reese
>> *Sent:* 20 February 2009 12:39
>> *To:* Thin
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>> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE
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>> Microsoft is going to love watching a price war.
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
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>> Umm, I think EMC still own part of them, but they were seperated and
>> floated.
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>> > How come I get the feeling that VMWare is the next Novell!
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>> I hadn't thought about that, but everyone seems to be rallying around Xen,
>> and if VMWare don't drop their price, it could well be a right thrashing for
>> them.
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>> Berny
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>> 2009/2/20 Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
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>> Vmware is still an emc company right?
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:57 PM, "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
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>> Not a bad choice this week but after next week the rumors are strong
>> that not only is Citrix going to give away the hypervisor, but also the
>> Enterprise features such as Xen Motion and storage repositories. It will get
>> very interesting, very quickly if this really happens!!
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>> How come I get the feeling that VMWare is the next Novell!?!!?! J
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>> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]
>> *On Behalf Of *Jan
>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:24 PM
>> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE
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>> Wow... we recently bought VMware ESX for 7 servers. I'm wondering if that
>> was a bad fiscal choice in light of this.
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>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Tim <timothylanderson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> *Error! Filename not specified.*
>> Free XenServer virtualization hypervisor helps Citrix, partners say
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>> *Error! Filename not specified.*
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>> By Colin Steele, Site Editor
>> 19 Feb 2009 | SearchSystemsChannel.com
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>> The server virtualization hypervisor wars are heating up. Citrix plans to
>> give away XenServer
>> 5<http://citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=683148>-- its
>> Xen hypervisor, along with live migration, native Windows and Linux
>> support and other advanced features -- for free.
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>> Rest of article at....
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>> http://searchsystemschannel.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid99_gci1348572,00.html?track=NL-738&ad=690018&Offer=CHSYunsc219&asrc=EM_USC_5906881&uid=1857222
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