Xen and Gone?
    A random blogger recently made a rather 
stunning 
  prediction: That Xen is as good as dead. His logic? Citrix, which bought 
  Xen, is so wedded to Microsoft that it will kill Xen in favor of Hyper-V. 
I interviewed Citrix chief Mark Templeton for the premiere issue of Virtualization 
  Review magazine (you can check out the article here). 
  The interview came just as Microsoft and Citrix were announcing a multiyear 
  cooperation agreement over virtualization. The deal calls for both companies 
  to support each others' hypervisors, Hyper-V and Xen, and work on interoperability. 
I asked Templeton how he can support Microsoft's Hyper-V and still give his 
  full weight to Xen. It's a delicate balancing act, but Templeton explained that 
  he would leave it up to customers. He also made it clear that he wouldn't be 
  at all shy about pushing Hyper-V.
That is the kind of talk that got Brian Madden, the blogger, speculating that 
  Xen was ultimately dead.
Virtualization Review Editor Keith Ward took on the issue in his 
  own blog.
My take? Citrix and Microsoft have had complementary and competitive products 
  in the thin client space for years. And Xen, more than anything, is an open 
  source tool that helps Citrix build relationships with the likes of Sun, IBM 
  and Novell. I don't think it's going anywhere.
 
	
Posted by Doug Barney on July 10, 2008