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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Kinda like a debian thread turns into a ubuntu thread...or a opensuse story has to mention Microsoft and Novell..
I find this a really intriguing acquisition myself. One would wonder if it is a simple monetary investing to get into the virt game, or if Citrix has plans for it's own existing products.Virtualized citrix application server anyone?
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2006-01-10
It's funny how the description leads into talking about VMWare offering it's IPO and actually feels (by the way it's worded) like more of a revelant topic than Citrix buying XenSource.