Linux Foundation takes over Xen, enlists Amazon in war to rule the cloud

Posted by BernardSwiss on Apr 16, 2013 1:08 AM EDT
Aars Technica; By Jon Brodkin
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The 10-year-old Xen hypervisor was formerly a community project sponsored by Citrix, much as the Fedora operating system is a community project sponsored by Red Hat. Citrix was looking to place Xen into a vendor-neutral organization, however, and the Linux Foundation move was announced today. The list of companies that will "contribute to and guide the Xen Project" is impressive, including Amazon Web Services, AMD, Bromium, Calxeda, CA Technologies, Cisco, Citrix, Google, Intel, Oracle, Samsung, and Verizon.

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