Just take a look at all those sites and blogs wearing the "Boycott Novell" logo and you'll know what it means in terms of reputational damage. I sure don't hope that the Xen developers are left in the dark and the community that has heavily depended on Xen's source.
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Gartner analyst George Weiss said that XenSource chief Peter Levine has to make a concerted effort in order to retain the loyalty of the open-source Xen developers. Otherwise, he said, the open-source community may look at the future of the Xen project destiny with too much uncertainty to continue supporting it.
"The possible downside here is the open-source community might see that technology being co-opted by a larger conglomerate of proprietary company that may use the open source as a vehicle toward the financial gains and monetary rewards of this Citrix-XenSource company," Weiss said.
Weiss said that the move could even cause companies such as Red Hat and Novell toward alternative technologies, such as Qumranet's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), a Linux kernel infrastructure for supporting virtualisation.
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