Who didn't see *that* coming?
Citrix and Microsoft make nice at VMWorld
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| For those wondering how Microsoft partner Citrix’s purchase of open-source
| vendor XenSource would affect Citrix’s relationship with Microsoft, the
| September 11 announcement involving the two does little to answer that
| question.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=708
Microsoft, Citrix To Extend Virtualization Alliance
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| Today at VMworld 2007, Microsoft Corp. and Citrix Systems Inc. announced that
| they have strengthened their longtime integration alliance in the desktop and
| application delivery market by standardizing on the Microsoft Virtual Hard
| Disk (VHD) format as a common runtime environment for both virtualized
| operating systems and applications.
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http://www.huliq.com/33884/microsoft-citrix-to-extend-virtualization-alliance
That's just how Microsoft plays. It buys its competition and the disruptive
technology it cannot compete against.
That's /exactly/ why we need to keep an eye on Microsoft, which has virtually
stolen Xen from Linux. Linux companies already (should) explore alternatives
to this good GPL-licensed product...
New OpenVZ for Linux 2.6.22 includes live migration
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| The team behind the OpenVZ project will announce today the availability of
| its operating system virtualization software for the latest stable release of
| the Linux kernel. OpenVZ for Linux 2.6.22 now supports user ID namespaces for
| improved security, and has new process ID namespace code that makes live
| migration possible.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119143
Related:
Will Microsoft Buy the New Citrix?
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| VMware, holding some 85 percent of the market, with its VI3 technologies
| offers a fully integrated stack and represents a third generation of
| virtualization technology, while Viridian and Xen-based products, including
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, XenEnterprise
| and Virtual Iron, remain second-generation products, the report stated.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2171434,00.asp
Heady Days for Virtual Systems
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| The former Microsoft Latest News about Microsoft general manager is
| now vice president of XenSource, a Palo Alto, Calif., virtualization
| company with a growing outpost in Redmond, Wash.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59088.html
What the XenSource deal says about open source
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| This is what Citrix is paying for. That and a close relationship with
| Microsoft that looks likely to get closer. “We will be building dynamic
| virtualization services and management tools on top of Viridian,” Levine
| added. “We will build the same set of products we’ve built on top of Xen for
| Viridian. We’ve already hired a team to go do that up in Redmond.”
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| While Citrix maintained it will continue support for the Xen project, this
| deal is not about a proprietary vendor getting open source religion. It's
| about grabbing an emerging player in a rapidly expanding sector of the
| market.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/08/what_the_xensou.html
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