Citrix resurrects King George as hypervisor
While it preps the next release of its XenServer virtual machine hypervisor, Citrix is reliving the American Revolution.
As it departs the UK for Boston, the company's XenServer dev team is putting the finishing touches on a new version code-name "George," after King George III. And the next release is dubbed "Midnight Ride," after Paul Revere's famous gallop.
The core open source development project is still anchored at Cambridge University under Ian Pratt - founder of the Xen project and also the vice president of advanced product for Citrix' Virtualization and Management Division - but the commercialized product, XenServer, has its own team. It's this team - heavy into management tools for virtual server environments - that's being moved to Boston from the United Kingdom.
Citrix already had a team in Boston dedicated to its Provisioning Server (which was merged into the XenServer stack after Citrix shelled out $500m to buy XenSource, the company behind Xen, in the summer of 2007). Another Citrix acquisition, Reflectent Software, which created an access and systems management tool called EdgeSight, is also located in Boston.
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