"Open-source technology is ready to take a major step forward
into the competitive virtual machine space, a move that could help
drive down costs for users.
"The Xen project this week expects to release Xen 3.0, an
open-source hypervisor technology offering features aimed at large
SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) environments. At the same time,
XenSource Inc., a company founded earlier this year by the initial
developers of Xen, will release its first commercial product,
called XenOptimizer, designed to help manage environments using
Xen..."
