Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Aug 2007 21:36 UTC
Citrix Systems is acquiring XenSource, whose founders helped develop the open-source Xen hypervsior, for USD 500 million in a move that caps a significant week in the development of virtualization technology. The XenSource acquisition, which both companies announced Aug. 15, comes just a day after VMware, which has long been the dominant player in the x86 virtualization market, announced an initial public offering of 33 million shares of stock. By the end of its first day of trading, the company's stock closed at almost USD 51 a share.
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2005-07-08
Nothing makes me angrier than virtualizing applications down to the bare metal. This is the pinnacle of insanity, a monument to inefficiency, and a referendum on code reuse. More senseless vertical integration brought to you by ruthless corporatists that refuse to find common ground.
They don't care about interoperability! Their definition of interoperability is that their application runs on your hardware. Their giant monoliths may reach all the way down to your processor, but they will not reach across to the other applications on your system. They couldn't even interact with each other if they wanted to.
Fine. It seems that commercial vendors are going to have to learn their lessons the hard way. IT is about combining applications together to solve complicated problems. Application-centric virtualization will create more problems than it solves. It will create more barriers and it breaks.
And as always, customers will pay dearly for the software industry's inability to cooperate.