After critical changes in management, strategic direction and product focus, XenSource, a virtualization software start up that relies on open source code, confronts crucial decisions affecting the positioning and packaging of its products, a dispute that is compounded by two supplementary elements: (1) the tension with the open source component and the best way to best proceed to market with that component and (2) the start up's goal to catch / overtake the recognized incumbent in the virtualization space, VMware.
PUBLICATION DATE: June 25, 2008 PRODUCT #: E267C-HCB-ENG
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