eWeek: Open Source Enters VM Space

"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..."

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