Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform Now Free

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 23, 2009 @08:01AM from the gateway-drugs-and-other-business-models dept.

Pedro writes "Citrix announced today that they are giving away their Xen OSS based virtualization platform XenServer with all the goodies included for free. The big highlights are XenMotion, which lets you move VMs from box to box without downtime, and multi server management. The same stuff in VMware land is $5k. They plan to sell new products for XenServer and also the same stuff on Microsoft's virtualization technology called Hyper-V. It will be interesting to see what VMware does. The announcement comes the day before VMware's big user event VMworld."

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Re:I'm guessing VMWare isn't that worried by Kent+Recal · 2009-02-23 08:50 · Score: 5, Interesting

So, VMWare gives you free support for their paid product but citrix charges you for support on their free product? Boggles the mind.
We are currently doing a similar head-to-head and so far it seems that for the ESX license costs alone we can hire two full-time admins and buy plenty of support from citrix when needed. YMMV.