Citrix is going private

olivierlambert

https://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/jan-2022/takeprivate.html

Note: This doesn't impact Vates, nor XCP-ng and Xen orchestra projects

jbamford

@olivierlambert

Hi Olivier,

What does this mean for XCP-ng? I guess as XCP-ng is opensource it will not be affected?

Thanks.

Jack.

olivierlambert

We are not affected at all That's the perk of being fully independent!

But this is pretty big, consequences on techs teams inside Citrix aren't clear yet. Will Citrix be split to multiple entities? Hard to say. Some assets sold to another company? Too early to have a clue.

But this is something we'll keep on our radar obviously

jbamford

@olivierlambert

That is good XCP-ng not being affected, I guess time will tell

xcpngbiswb

Saw this on reddit and thought for just a second "crap... what does this mean for my Xenservers" and then I thought... "Oh yeah, nothing! I run XCP-NG everywhere!" Thanks team for making that a reality!

olivierlambert

haha thanks, yes that's exactly why it was great to "protect" the software with our fork

Forza

Do we know anything about the continued development of Xenserver? I mean, isn't XCP-ng using Xenserver as upstream still, or is this going to change?

olivierlambert

Well, I would say it's not directly an "upstream", it's a bit more another "downstream" from Xen and XAPI project (at least that's the idea).

It's far too early to answer about XenServer, plus the fact I'm not in Citrix board So I can't tell. I know it's generating revenue, so as long there's money, things won't disappear into thin air (support contracts and so on).