According to this Computerworld blog, Citrix is about to give away XenServer 5 and the new management tools will manage Hyper-V and the open source Xen hypervisors.
If that’s the case, it should make things interesting.
Citrix, Microsoft, Novell and Redhat ganging up on VMware: XenServer 5 Free?
February 18, 2009 by 1 Comment
At last it looks like there will be a free, supported, commercial-grade virtualization solution for those of us who dont have the budget for VMware and have been disappointed with Hyper-V and its predecessors.
I can only imagine this is unhappy news for VMware who surely must now take a reality check on their pricing. I only hope they do not go the same way as Netscape, having 3 strong vendors in the market stops a lot of the kind of bad behavior you see from ERP, CRM, and BI vendors (you know who you are).
Citrix are advertising Free Xen on google (http://tinyurl.com/b3juwd) as of now, and apparently I can even get free deployment advice from these guys: (http://tinyurl.com/bflg76).
Anyone recommend a good free hardware supplier?
Whats next? Free electricity? If only solar was viable in the UK…
AG