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XenServer 6.2 Is Now Fully Open Source
First time accepted submitter Jagungal writes "Although the core Xen hypervisor has always been open source from the start, Citrix have now released the next version of their XenServer including all features and tools under an open source license. This includes also introducing a new XenServer.org community portal. The major change for users is that they now get all features from the licensed version for free but unless they pay for support, they have to do all security updates manually. Change logs for the new version 6.2 can be found here.
It's been a few years since Citrix started giving it away, free as in beer.
Sorry dude, this is slashdot. You lost your epeen contest with the op when you admitted your organisation uses exchange and sql server.
Would it be a good time to remind you that there aren't really any open source e-mail server products that are truly enterprise grade?
Sendmail doesn't work so well, when you are required to allow users to keep 20 Gigabytes in their mailbox, Share calendars / Tasks; access mail on their iPhone or Android device, Spamassassin's spam filtering sucks even with Bayesian filtering (due to the low kill rate and high false positive rate, and high CPU cost of Spamassassin),
and POP3/IMAP connectivity has security issues -- regarding possibility of corporate data being exfiltrated, and inability to remotely wipe mobile devices connecting with POP/IMAP, and ActiveSync is indeed up to the challenge?
Furthermore... i've yet to find an open source webmail platform that works with AD RMS -- Rights management services; or Windows IRM ( Digital Information Rights Management ), for encrypting sensitive corporate e-mail to ensure that it is not accidentally leaked outside the organization.