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Why Silverlight does not support Opera
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| With the release of Silverlight 2 in October, Microsoft added official
| support for the newly released Google Chrome, in addition to IE, Firefox, and
| Safari support. Support for Opera, and other browsers with little market
| share, was nowhere to be seen.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/12/22/why-silverlight-does-not-support-opera
Microsoft's VMware assault: New Citrix management tools for Hyper-V
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| In the first quarter of 2009, Citrix will release its XenServer suite of
| management tools that works with Microsoft Hyper-V rather than its own
| XenServer hypervisor, said Lou Shipley, general manager and group vice
| president of Citrix's XenServer unit, the Management Systems Group.
|
| No live migration? No problem. Courtesy of Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft's
| relatively rudimentary Hyper-V virtualization offering is due to gain
| valuable new management capabilities, which could catapult Hyper-V into the
| same league as VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
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http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid94_gci1343384,00.html
Yet more proof that Microsoft exploits Xen with its bride, Citrix.
Recent:
Microsoft, Citrix grow alliance
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| Microsoft Corp. and Citrix Systems said they have expanded their alliance to
| deliver and market joint virtualization products with Windows Server 2008.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/080122/1579676.html?.v=1
Citrix Systems Tops Estimates
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| Citrix completed the acquisition of open source virtualization developer
| XenSource about halfway through the quarter. It added $2 million to Citrix
| revenue. XenSource is expected to generate $50 million in revenue for 2008
| and about $50 million to $60 million in expenses.
|
| For 2009, XenSource is expected to contribute $200 million to the top line.
| The bulk of that will come from its server products, CEO Mark Templeton said.
| XenSource desktop virtualization products will initially be used in corporate
| pilot programs.
|
| "We think we can build in the server virtualization market the same kind of
| symbiotic relationship with Microsoft (MSFT - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr)
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| that we had with [the Citrix] Presentation Server," which works atop Windows
| Server, Templeton said. "We'll be the third player in server virtualization"
| after VMware (VMW - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) and partner Microsoft.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/techsoftware/10400121.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
Related:
Microsoft targets VMware with new strategy
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| Citrix is developing a software tool that helps Microsoft's Hyper-V
| virtualization feature in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 to work more
| easily with Citrix's XenServer product.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft has acquired a start-up company called Calista Technologies and
| expanded its alliance with Citrix Systems, targeting VMware's early lead in
| virtualization technology.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6227023.html
Microsoft Pushes Virtualization
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| Microsoft announced that it competed acquisituion of Calista Technologies, a
| San Jose, Calif.-based start-up that makes computer graphics for virtualized
| computers, and an expanded partnership with Citrix Systems (nasdaq: CTXS -
| news - people ), a VMware competitor based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
| Microsoft and Citrix will jointly market services that "virtualize"
| computers, operating systems and applications.
|
| Microsoft's shot across the bow at VMware is inevitable as companies
| throughout industry shift to Web-based services. "Microsoft needs to get
| something into the market quickly," says Roger Kay, president of technology
| research firm Endpoint Technologies Associate. "Windows Office has 10 years
| to burn, but it will become less relevant."
|
| [...]
|
| A Microsoft-Citrix combination could present formidable competition to
| VMware, he suggests. Buying Citrix, however, would be a significant deal: The
| company has a market capitalization of $6.4 billion.
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http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/20/microsoft-vmware-calista-tech-cx_wt_0121microsoft.html
For Citrix, Target Acquired
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| You said earlier this year that Citrix is an "admirer" of Microsoft for its
| innovation, Adobe for its strong brand and Apple for its easy-to-use
| products. After watching your swift acquisition pace and the kind of
| companies you target for acquisition, I would argue Citrix is patterned more
| after Cisco Systems. Do you think that's a reasonable argument?
|
| You are thinking of the acquisition point of view instead of the comments I
| made. Those were about role models. Cisco has not been a role model for our
| acquisitions. They are a fabulous company. We love Cisco. When I talk about
| Microsoft, Adobe and Apple, they are role models for the things I cited.
|
| I happen to be a huge believer in role models. It's pragmatic: If someone
| does something really well, study it and translate that into your own
| business. I think it applies to companies and people. The way you better
| yourself is to find someone you want to be like and try to be like them. That
| impacts the way we work at Citrix.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2213318,00.asp
Ballmer: Microsoft Will Buy Open-Source Companies
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| "We will do some buying of companies that are built around open-source
| products," Ballmer said during an onstage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in
| San Francisco.
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http://www.crn.com/software/202404305
Is Microsoft Hijacking Open Source?
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| What really worries me is what looks like an emerging pattern in Microsoft's
| behaviour. The EU agreement is perhaps the first fruit of this, but I predict
| it will not be the last. What is happening is that Microsoft is effectively
| being allowed to define the meaning of “open source” as it wishes, not as
| everyone else understands the term. For example, in the pledge quoted above,
| an open source project is “not commercially distributed by its
| participants” - and this is a distinction also made by Kroes and her FAQ.
|
| In this context, the recent approval of two Microsoft licences as
| officially “open source” is only going to make things worse. Although I felt
| this was the right decision – to have ad hoc rules just because it's
| Microsoft would damage the open source process - I also believe it's going to
| prove a problem. After all, it means that Microsoft can rightfully point to
| its OSI-approved licences as proof that open source and Microsoft no longer
| stand in opposition to each other. This alone is likely to perplex people who
| thought they understood what open source meant.
|
| [...]
|
| What we are seeing here are a series of major assaults on different but
| related fields – open source, open file formats and open standards. All are
| directed to one goal: the hijacking of the very concept of openness. If we
| are to stop this inner corrosion, we must point out whenever we see wilful
| misuse and lazy misunderstandings of the term, and we must strive to make the
| real state of affairs quite clear. If we don't, then core concepts like “open
| source” will be massaged, kneaded and pummelled into uselessness.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1003745
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 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.”
|
| 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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