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
Steve Greenberg
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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:
Free XenServer virtualization hypervisor helps Citrix, partners say
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 -- its Xen hypervisor, along with
live migration, native Windows and Linux support and other advanced
features -- for free.
Rest of article at....
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
