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XenSource: Page 3 of 4

Undeterred, XenSource is already racking up additional OEM partners, according to John Bara, the startup's vice president of marketing. "We have got another half dozen in the pipeline that you will see by the end of the year and early Q1," he told Byte and Switch

Egenera's Davis says that XenSource's partnership with Microsoft helped clinch today's OEM deal: "Part of it was based on the strength of the relationship between XenSource and Microsoft -- customers want to consolidate Windows applications."

The end result of XenSource's work with Microsoft will be a set of software adapters, according to Bara. These, he adds, will enable Linux "guests" to run natively on top of Microsoft's Longhorn virtualization software, which is expected to be on the market sometime within the next 18 months.

Egenera's XenSource-enabled hypervisor will be available sometime in the first half of next year; the vendor has not yet released pricing.

James Rogers, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch

  • Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD)
  • Cassatt Corp.
  • Egenera Inc.
  • IDC
  • Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC)
  • Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)
  • Novell Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL)
  • Pund-IT Inc.
  • Red Hat Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT)
  • The StorageIO Group
  • XenSource Inc.