On the minus side, losing its independence to Citrix could eventually call into question XenSource's role in leading the open source Xen hypervisor project. On top of all that, VMware is valued at $20bn as it floats on Wall Street, and Citrix...
Microsoft said on Thursday it is pulling features out of the initial version of its 'Viridian' hypervisor to avoid having to delay the virtualisation technology. The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor technology to try to...
Specifically, it said it is developing so-called hypervisor software, code-named Viridian, to host multiple operating systems on one machine. Microsoft faces competition in the market from EMC subsidiary VMware and increasingly the Xen project that...
The company sells three core products, VMware Workstation, GSX Server and ESX Server, but competition is on the horizon in a market VMware once had to itself. The higher-end ESX product, by contrast, needs no host and runs below the operating...
Citrix Systems has said it intends to acquire open source virtualisation company XenSource for around $500m, a day after the spectacular public offering of virtualisation company VMware. By acquiring XenSource, the company intends to move into the...
For example, VMware has publicly disparaged Microsoft's virtualisation policies, and Microsoft has worked with open source competitor XenSource in an attempt to ensure both Windows and Linux can run on either company's virtualisation foundation.
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