[THIN] Re: Citrix to give away XenServer FREE

VMWare should create a Citrix alternative and give it away for free.
Then things will get interesting.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Andrew Wood
<andrew.wood@gilwood-cs.co.uk> wrote:
> 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@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] 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@technology.net.au>
> 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@gmail.com>
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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@thinclient.net>
> 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@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
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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@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Error! Filename not specified.
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> 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 -- 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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