[THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE

  • From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:34:23 +0000

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.

VMWare have given out ESXi for nothing, but it's the management tools that
cost (VMotion etc)

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.

Berny


2009/2/20 Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  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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