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!?!!?! :-) Steve Greenberg Thin Client Computing 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453 Scottsdale, AZ 85266 (602) 432-8649 www.thinclient.net steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____ 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 <http://rss.techtarget.com/482.xml> 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.... http://searchsystemschannel.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid99_gci13 48572,00.html?track=NL-738 <http://searchsystemschannel.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid99_gci1 348572,00.html?track=NL-738&ad=690018&Offer=CHSYunsc219&asrc=EM_USC_5906881& uid=1857222> &ad=690018&Offer=CHSYunsc219&asrc=EM_USC_5906881&uid=1857222