Citrix has
officially announced it’s next version of XenServer will be free. Obviously a strategic move to bolster production deployment of the XenServer hypervisor, Citrix is also confident that today’s move will ultimately provide a low cost enterprise class virtual infrastructure alternative, improve hosted cloud services already using Xen Server (such as Amazon EC2), and enable cost effective private cloud infrastructure.
You can download a free trial version today at http://www.citrix.com/freexenserver.
New management and automation products, such as Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V were also announced, are expected to generate revenue for the Citrix virtualization products.
Citrix is not holding back on the features available in the free release!!