-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 So, my day started with this
On 08/16/2007 01:10 AM, Peter Levine wrote: > *A Letter to XenSource Customers and Partners from > Peter J. Levine, CEO and President, XenSource * > August 15th, 2007 > > Dear member of the XenSource community, [snip] > It is with great pleasure XenSource shares with you the news that Citrix > has signed a definitive agreement to acquire XenSource in an acquisition > expected to close in Q4, 2007. [snip] > XenSource and Citrix share a common strategy and focus > around adding value to the Microsoft Windows ecosystem and delivering > value-added solutions to Windows and the entire Microsoft suite. The > combined company will deliver the market's best virtualization for > Windows customers from the data center to the desktop. [snip] > Open source Xen is the foundation in which XenSource's success has been > built, and the contributions and participation of the community are > valued. Citrix shares our commitment that our contributions to open > source Xen continue strongly, with the community flourishing > transparently without the constraints of commercial software > development. To achieve this, we will develop procedures in the very > near future for independent oversight of the Xen project. XenSource will > absolutely continue on our core strategy of leveraging the valuable > innovation of the open source Xen community and creating commercial > solutions based on Xen. Damm! Bad news twice in a month [1]. But what's the stake here ? Citrix is a MSFT old time partner, Xensource is in core linux distributions and isn't famous for their Windows solution, rather for the Linux one. Some say that $500 is too much for a $10M company [2], others say that's a nicely move for MSFT [3], but is it heading for monopoly [4] ? One thing's for sure, the Xen opensource will never be the same. [1] - http://lists.paradigma.pt/pipermail/tce/2007-August/000070.html [2] - http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Citrix-buys-XenSource-for-500M [3] - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2171434,00.asp [4] - http://www.virtualization.info/2006/06/virtualization-market-towards-monopoly.html - -- Vitor Domingos Paradigma.pt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGxD0qzLeQsaqPtNIRCuHvAJwLLSjlWNo5SuQAF5oviRGgAm6L9ACfcr+t Lf/Sb3SHUMgXsGPj5N5RHQw= =LuxH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.paradigma.pt/mailman/listinfo/tce
