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.

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[Gothmolly]

Another handwavy, FUD-filled technology that drives stupid amount of capital expenditure, just to paper over architectural and application design problems. It's like client-server for PCs, but yet, not really. The worst of both worlds - you need a local high powered client to render crap that's so fat it has to stay on the server.