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As it preps the next release of its XenServer virtual machine hypervisor, Citrix is reliving the American Revolution. The company's XenServer dev team - on the move from Britain to Boston - is putting the finishing touches on a new version code-name "George," after King George III. And the next release is dubbed "Midnight Ride …

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  1. ian
    Happy

    George III?

    So this package will spew blue urine on its underlings, with a maintenance release labeled "porphyria"? Or will it be mad as a March hare from v1.0?

    Citrix are to be congratulated on their knowledge of history, if nothing else.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    So its called George ?

    I can't wait for the Dubya Release !

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Symantec sells a variant of the Xen Hypervisor too

    http://www.symantec.com/business/virtual-infrastructure

    "Veritas Virtual Infrastructure delivers the first unified enterprise-class virtualization solution, bringing industry-leading storage management into x86 virtual server environments for production workloads. Leveraging Veritas Storage Foundation, along with Citrix XenServer server virtualization technology, customers can seamlessly manage both storage and virtual server operations using one intuitive, highly scalable, web-based console."

  4. Justin Thomas
    Paris Hilton

    August 2007

    Citrix acquired XenSource in 2007 - not 2000. And I'm curious about the "10,000" computers statistic as of that date; it seems unlikely.

    Paris, because she has a hard time with numbers, too.

  5. Michael Moore

    Currency in the American Colonies

    Cannot let ian get away with it.

    This is from a role-playing group re-enacting the American War of

    Independence.

    http://www.continentalline.org/articles/9703/970301.htm

    Currency and Finance in the 18th Century

    By James E. Newell - German Regiment, 1st Continental Regiment of Foot

    In 1751, "England attempted, in a number of steps, to regulate the American

    paper money".

    "Actually, the middle colonies continued to issue paper, and New York was

    officially allowed to renew their land bank in 1771, Pennsylvania, theirs in

    1773 and New Jersey, theirs in 1774. The English Merchants redoubled their

    efforts in response, and in 1775, England prohibited all paper money in the

    colonies."

    "It is not well understood today, however, that the relatively small taxes

    proposed by England were only part of the story. The regulation, by England,

    of attempts by the colonies to facilitate their own internal economies was

    the other half. This control culminated, of course, in the outright ban on

    printed money announced in 1775. Alexander Hamilton is considered correct in

    claiming that paper money was 3/4 of the total money supply on the "eve of

    the revolution". By this time, paper money had become, for the population,

    the "ancient system" and had existed as long as most people could remember.

    If placed into effect, the prohibition of the use of paper money would have

    destroyed the budding American economy."

    Parliamentary Reports for 1776 record, in the Debate on The Address, Lord

    Chatham appealing to Lord North not to tax the Colonies, and giving a very

    accurate account of the result if he went ahead.

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