[THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE

  • From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:47:19 +0000

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?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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>
> *Steve Greenberg*
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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>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.
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Tim < <timothylanderson@xxxxxxxxx>
> timothylanderson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>     *Free XenServer virtualization hypervisor helps Citrix, partners say*
>
>   By Colin Steele, Site Editor
> 19 Feb 2009 | SearchSystemsChannel.com
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> <http://rss.techtarget.com/482.xml>
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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.
>
> 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>
> 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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