Comments on: Open Source Communities: About the Importance of Retaining an Open Source Community http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/07/15/open-source-communities-about-the-importance-of-retaining-an-open-source-community/ “equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism” Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:25:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Boycott Novell » Microsoft: Our Biggest Competitors in SMB Space Are OpenOffice.org, MysQL http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/07/15/open-source-communities-about-the-importance-of-retaining-an-open-source-community/comment-page-1/#comment-490873 Boycott Novell » Microsoft: Our Biggest Competitors in SMB Space Are OpenOffice.org, MysQL Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:22:41 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/07/15/open-source-communities-about-the-importance-of-retaining-an-open-source-community/#comment-490873 [...] gave an example of this yesterday. Remember what happened to XenSource after Microsoft had intervened. Here is where things stand today. Tony Asaro, who recently joined Virtual Iron as Chief Strategy [...] [...] gave an example of this yesterday. Remember what happened to XenSource after Microsoft had intervened. Here is where things stand today. Tony Asaro, who recently joined Virtual Iron as Chief Strategy [...]

]]> By: Stephen Spector http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/07/15/open-source-communities-about-the-importance-of-retaining-an-open-source-community/comment-page-1/#comment-489203 Stephen Spector Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:22:05 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/07/15/open-source-communities-about-the-importance-of-retaining-an-open-source-community/#comment-489203 I am the Xen.org program manager from Citrix/XenSource and wanted to reply to the ZDNet posting. You can read my response at http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12695-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=49804&messageID=932957. My personal opinion is that Simon's discussion about Virtual Iron was taken incorrectly by Virtual Iron as they saw a great PR opportunity to take people's attention away from his technical comments. One interesting issue that this whole blog conflict shows is the difficult task of people speaking out about both the open source project (Xen) and the companies for sale product (XenServer). I think that Simon may have incorrectly mixed the two concepts in his response thus causing the whole blog conflict; however, it seems as though the ZDNet authors went quite far in their "forecast" of what was really going on. Please stop by the Xen.org community site to see how Citrix along with the Xen Advisory Board who manage the project are working together to make Xen a great open source solution for customers. I am the Xen.org program manager from Citrix/XenSource and wanted to reply to the ZDNet posting. You can read my response at http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12695-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=49804&messageID=932957. My personal opinion is that Simon’s discussion about Virtual Iron was taken incorrectly by Virtual Iron as they saw a great PR opportunity to take people’s attention away from his technical comments.

One interesting issue that this whole blog conflict shows is the difficult task of people speaking out about both the open source project (Xen) and the companies for sale product (XenServer). I think that Simon may have incorrectly mixed the two concepts in his response thus causing the whole blog conflict; however, it seems as though the ZDNet authors went quite far in their “forecast” of what was really going on.

Please stop by the Xen.org community site to see how Citrix along with the Xen Advisory Board who manage the project are working together to make Xen a great open source solution for customers.

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