Is It Time to Fork Xen? | Linux Today

Is It Time to Fork Xen?

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MA
Matt Asay
Aug 23, 2007

“I read this Charlie Babcock (InformationWeek) interview with
Peter Levine (CEO, XenSource) and Wes Wasson (corporate VP of
worldwide marketing, Citrix), and I’m left with the feeling that
XenSource really doesn’t see Xen’s future in open source, but
rather in Windows.

“Which makes me think it may be time to fork the project and
move on. But then, the company already did that for us, didn’t
it…?”

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