[Linux-cluster] Open Source VM Solutions?

[gordan at bobich.net]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, isplist at logicore.net wrote:

>> "Citrix also reiterated its commitment to maintaining and growing
>> support for the independent Xen open source community which develops the
>> underlying virtualization engine used by many commercial products
>> throughout the industry, including those from XenSource."
>
> So anyone using it or thinking about it would still consider it viable as an
> open source project then?

Sure. You cannot exactly just close-source a GPL-ed project. It just means 
Xen now has a "sponsor" for enterprise installations in corporate 
environments where managers feel better if they pay for something because 
they misguidedly believe that passing the buck up the vendor chain makes 
it less of their responsibility when something goes wrong. :-)

Gordan