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Yeah, Xen was always open source but XenServer Essentials was the premium component that people paid for - stuff like GSLB, HA, storage management, etc Similar
by changdizzle 13y ago
Yeah, Xen was always open source but XenServer Essentials was the premium component that people paid for - stuff like GSLB, HA, storage management, etc
Similar to how VMWare gave away View for free to eat at Citrix's XenDesktop market share, Citrix decided to do the same on the Hypervisor side.
- Patrick_Devine 13y agoI think Citrix does two things with this; it potentially stops losing more market share to KVM, particularly in regards to OpenStack, and it also will potentially eat in to ESX market share. In the last slides I saw at http://personal.crocodoc.com/4YprKmn http://personal.crocodoc.com/4YprKmn KVM was at 71% of deployed OpenStack installations and Xen was at a combined 13%. FD: I've worked at VMware for the last 11 years and have worked on ESX since 1.5.