I realize my statement was off the cuff and normally that is not like me, but I wanted to get just the reaction that I did.
I've been hearing tales for serveral months that Citrix's recent alignment with Microsoft (over the last 6-10 months) is directly related to their efforts to phase out XenServer as a HyperVisor and continue advancement of HyperV. The argument has been that Microsoft has a better HyperVisor and Citrix has much better management tools. It's hard to argue that from a capability standpoint, neither Microsoft or Citrix could really compete with VMWare. Their market play has traditionally been that of a value proposition. Given VMWare's dominance in the market, it wouldn't be surprising if MS and Citrix teamed up. Citrix has a much better product in XenDesktop compared to View and Citrix has traditionally been an app presentation solution provider. I would expect them to focus in that arena while continuing to leverage their management tools with MS HyperV for server virtualization. I'm not claiming to have any insider information and I fully appreciate your position as a CTP. I would love to hear the other side of the story because to be quite honest, I haven't heard any rebuttals to the "rumors" above in our small IT circle up north. I honestly have nothing against Citrix. We have a 200+ Server XenApp 5 farm where I'm employed. - Sean On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > “XenServer will be dead soon”**** > > ** ** > > Dude that is a boatload of crap! **** > > ** ** > > Do you realize that the vast majority of public cloud providers run on > either the free or paid for XenServer or the free Xen hypervisor? One > Canadian cloud provider has over 12,000 XenServer hosts. Now that Citrix > has bought cloud.com, the Xen open source project and the Citrix XenServer > (free and paid) product are not going away.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Carl Webster**** > > Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional**** > > http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/> (check out the > changes coming to my website)**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] > *Subject:* Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes**** > > ** ** > > XenServer will be dead soon. You might as well move to HyperV now if you > want to avoid VMWare. > > **** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
