Citrix is taking steps to help advance the commercially supported version of its XenServer virtualization product, while at the same time, removing some capabilities from the free edition of XenServer.
Ever since Citrix acquired XenSource for $500 million back in August 2007, there has been some form of free edition of Xen available for end-users. XenServer itself, which is Citrix’s commercially supported edition of 
Xen, was open-sources in June 2013 alongside the XenServer 6.2 release.
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