Comments on: Citrix Can’t Stay Xen as Microsoft Launches Hyper-V

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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:09:43 +0000

[...] But will Hyper-V compete with the Citrix server virtualization business [...]

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:45:11 +0000

[...] But will Hyper-V compete with the Citrix server virtualization business [...]

By: Jame

Jame — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:10:59 +0000

Well even if Citrix lose here, they still win. Hyper-V is based on Xen. Xen has had an office in Redmond working on this project for the past couple of years for the sole purpose of joint development of Hyper-V. Xen’s sole purpose was to commoditize the hypervisor. If a version is bundled free in Windows, and it is based on Xensource code, they met their goal. And Citrix has the inside scoop on how Hyper-V works and was implemented.