[THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE

  • From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:18:37 -0700

Yes, but what not free and would be included is shared storage and
XenMotion.    I'm guess resource pools are also included as that is how you
setup for Shared Storage and XenMotion.  The things that would not be
included would be Provision Server and Marathon's baby HA.

 

Joe

 

From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andrew Wood
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 7:14 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE

 

But essentially its free *now* isn't it - its free for servers if you're not
going to do any management on them?

 

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.

 

 

 

From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Greg Reese
Sent: 20 February 2009 12:39
To: Thin
Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE

 

Microsoft is going to love watching a price war. 

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On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Umm, I think EMC still own part of them, but they were seperated and
floated.

> How come I get the feeling that VMWare is the next Novell!

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.

Berny

2009/2/20 Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>

Vmware is still an emc company right?

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On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:57 PM, "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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!!

 

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] On Behalf
Of Jan
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:24 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE

 

Wow... we recently bought VMware ESX for 7 servers. I'm wondering if that
was a bad fiscal choice in light of this.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Tim <timothylanderson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


 

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Free XenServer virtualization hypervisor helps Citrix, partners say


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By Colin Steele, Site Editor
19 Feb 2009 | SearchSystemsChannel.com


 


        

 


 

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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