Todd Walton wrote:
Apparently, the world is ending, bit by open source bit.
Citrix Enters Datacenter and Desktop Virtualization Markets with
Acquisition of XenSource:
http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_680809.asp?ntref=hp_promo1_US
-todd
Maybe not... so much...
"Among the Xen partners contacted by /Internetnews.com, /the mood was
definitively positive and upbeat.
"Intel continues to be committed to participating in the Linux and Xen
communities to drive Linux virtualization forward," said Rammohan
Peddibhotla, director of the Open Source Technology Center at Intel.
"Given the open source nature of these communities, we’re not expecting
changes at the project level."
AMD was also positive. Margaret Lewis, director of commercial solutions
at AMD, noted that the acquisition is a reflection of how exciting the
virtualization space is today. That said Lewis does not expect it to
change AMD's involvement or participation in the Xen open source effort.
"We need to see how customers respond but we don't think it will dull
the open source effort, " Lewis said.
For Novell the acquisition of XenSource isn't expected to affect it at
all. Novell uses the Xen open source hypervisor in its SUSE Linux
Enterprise and OpenSUSE Linux distributions.
"It will have no impact. The Xen project is not XenSource, nor vice
versa," Novell spokesperson Kevan Barney said. "The effect on Novell is
the same as if someone bought Red Hat; that's the beauty of open source."
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3694721
rbw
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