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InfoWorld: Xen Sounds Great, But How Do I Install It?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 22, 2006

“Although Xen has been around for a while now, it still seems to
lurk in the shadows of other virtualization products from VMware
and Microsoft. At a time when these other companies were selling
their virtualization goods for top dollar, Xen was going to fill a
niche market–free virtualization for the masses. Unfortunately, it
wasn’t long until VMware began giving away Player and then
announced that the popular GSX Server platform would change names
to VMware Server and would also be distributed freely. Microsoft
also jumped on the ‘free’ bandwagon as it began giving away its
pride and joy, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.

“So where does that leave Xen…?”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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