This isn't an announcement of future plans; open-source XenCenter 6.2 was released today. This is a pleasant surprise, because I'm actually early in the process of deploying some servers running Xen Cloud Platform (XCP). Now that XenCenter is open source there won't be any more XCP releases, but upgrading from XCP to XenCenter is supported.<p>This and other questions I had were answered at <a href="http://xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/q-and-a/categories/listings/xenserver-org-launch.html" rel="nofollow">http://xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/q-and-a/categori...</a>
If you're interested Intel had a POV to add.
<a href="http://communities.intel.com/community/datastack/blog/2013/06/25/not-your-mothers-open-source" rel="nofollow">http://communities.intel.com/community/datastack/blog/2013/0...</a><p>FD: I work at Intel in the Data Center Group
This is pretty big news. I've known some small businesses that have had a need to virtualize, but didn't want to get into everything KVM/OpenVZ, etc entailed. The VMware Essentials bundle (I believe that is what it is called) made decent inroads in this arena, but with everything all the enterprise features being free, I will probably have to start recommending this.<p>I have been looking into breaking in to a specialized segment of lower-end hosting (VPS, etc) and was looking to base my platform on VMware (rather than OpenVZ/KVM which seems to be the norm) but I am going to take a serious look at this now.<p>I'm excited to try building the platform around XenServer, and excited to contribute to the project as well -- I hope we see a lot of contributions now that this is open-source. I would love to see a Linux or OS X version of the management client, which is wholly possible now.<p>I'm installing a test instance of 6.2 now (within ESXi, ironically) to play around with it!