A couple of days late, but I wanted to wait a while just in case it was an April Fool.  Citrix have just announced a new “per server” pricing model for XenServer - not per socket or per core, just per physical server.
This is interesting for a couple of reasons: It will increase the size [...]

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It has started. All over the internet there’s a battle going, to command mindshare in relation to the virtualisation space. Microsoft and Citrix are making a full frontal attack on VMware’s dominance. Broadly speaking, the rhetoric goes some thing like this:
The vendor story
Microsoft - “We have a complete end to end management solution for all [...]

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