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Citrix buys virtualisation firm XenSource

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By INQUIRER newsdesk

Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 16:46

CITRIX SYSTEMS SAID it has agreed to buy virtualisation firm XenSource for around $500 million.

The firm reckons server and desktop virtualisation markets will grow to nearly $5 billion over the next four years, so it wants a slice of that pie.

The firm talks of synergies and granularities and all the usual sort of fluff firms come out with at such times.

Somehow it also manages not to utter the word VMware any, um, ware in its 50,000 (approx.) word press release here. µ

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