August has been a busy month in the virtualization space. Citrix Systems spent $500 million to acquire up-and-coming virtualization vendor XenSource, right on the heels of the wildly successful IPO by VMWare. Both of these developments have gotten tremendous visibility – not just in the technology press, but in the general business press as well.

Why is Citrix paying a 500x multiple against sales to acquire XenSource and what does this mean for the open source community? What is VMWare going to do with the $900 million now lining its pockets from the IPO? How will these developments impact Microsoft and potential users of its Viridian hypervisor? How will these events impact your plans with virtualization and future directions? Let us know.

Where will the next shoe drop? You can expect our analysts to provide their insight in our virtualization track at the Gartner Data Center conference.

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