Peter Levine has replaced co-founder Nick Gault as CEO, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up plans to announce Wednesday. Levine most recently spent three years as a managing director at the Mayfield Fund venture capital firm. Before that, he led marketing, product development and business development at storage-software maker Veritas for 11 years.
Although Xen's influence has been spreading, making a business out of the software is a different challenge. Although IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other industry allies are helping XenSource to improve the Xen foundation, they become potential competitors when it comes to selling management tools such as XenSource's XenOptimizer. The Xen foundation this year is becoming a standard part of Linux versions from the two leading sellers of the open-source operating system, Red Hat and Novell. "
Word is they are getting eaten alive by VMWARE
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