The hypervisor war has seen a major twist with Citrix giving away XenServer 5 including the management product XenCenter for free. Personally I have been working with XenServer recently and should say that the product has improved dramatically and is worthy of being called a matured hypervisor.
VMware execs had brushed aside the implications of the announcement mocking at the worthiness of a "FREE" hypervisor in enterprises. But in my opinion, this has been a brilliant and a well timed move from Citrix. So far inspite of having a decent product, Citrix has been unable to break into the loyal customer base (or should I say fan following) that VMWare has.
By making XenServer free, Citrix has made an offer that enterprises can not reject. This will definitely get customers to atleast consider/evaluate XenServer for their deployments.
With Citrix pushing XenServer hard through its strong Sales Channels, should be interesting to observe the Hypervisor market over the next year.
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