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Winframe to Metaframe to Presentation to Xen

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Several Name iterations & a couple of acquisitions along, CITRIX has renamed it’s Presentation Server again. Now XenApp, it has been brought in line with the new Xen virtualisation suite. XenDesktop will be for your application virtualisation and XenServer for your operating system virtualisation. I can see this combination of products and CITRIX’s massive existing customer base will give it a huge leap into the virtualisation market.

I have not used XenServer yet but from what I understand it will be on par with the ESX/ Windows Virtualisation products from Microsoft and VMWare. Giving customers a lot of choice when deploying new virtual infrastructure. Scott Lowe has rescently posted a few thoughts on the new XenServer and I found both the article and comments quite interesting.

If you are in the Virtualisation industry and have not yet heard of XenServer I suggest have a read. What’s the saying, Know thy enemy…