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Should Citrix Have An Hypervisor In Their Product Line?

Friday, 10 August 2007 by Michel Roth

Brian has this magnificent article up that talks about Citrix' supposed plans to gain hypervisor techonology. It's extremely interesting to think about what would happen to the whole application (desktop) delivery ecosystem.

One way I think about is that it would be a tremendous advantage for Citrix to own the whole stack. The key however is that this whole stack is indeed a whole and not just a set of purchased technologies held together by oddly named product packs.
Take application streaming for example. Citrix was yelling Tarpon way before Microsoft assimilated Softgrid. If they had been earlier with a (very) decent product they might have had the edge (as they do in Terminal Server environments). Going for a hypervisor like XenSource at the 500M price range would bring them in the same predicament again.

So, it would be have been a great idea, IF they had been earlier (didn't Citrix had a chance to buy VMware in the early days?).
I guess Citrix needs more visionaries with balls... (no offense to Mark ;) )

Read Brians article here and be sure to join in the healthy discussion about this potential Citrixvisor ...