Tracy R Reed wrote:
The Xen I am talking about is open source software by some guys at a
university. It supports AMD and Intel equally as far as I can see.
SWSoft investment by Intel Capital (put code into Xen)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050620/221/fljne.html
Talking about the XenSource company:
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/06/the_way_of_xen.html
Xen co-developed by Cambridge and Intel Research:
http://www.intel.com/research/events/intel_day/intel_day.htm
This thing is *far* from being "just a cool open-source project".
This has Intel's hand all over it. In addition, it touches hardware.
Intel can defend their turf with both hardware *and* software patents.
Way too much money is floating around this to not at least be a little
suspicious.
It's a cool idea, but I wouldn't abandon the pure open-source efforts
either.
-a
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