[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@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] 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@technology.net.au> 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@gmail.com>

Vmware is still an emc company right?

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On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:57 PM, "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@thinclient.net> 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@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jan
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:24 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
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@gmail.com> wrote:

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