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  • A really small IT shop learns to hate patch tuesdays

    I am a really small IT shop. I have learned to hate patch tuesdays. Here's why....
    Tim Mangan on August 21, 2007 : 12 comments , 12,586 views
  • Help us do the "right" thing with BriForum vendors & sponsors

    BriForum Europe is just around the corner, and many potential sponsors are asking for "more." What can we do to accommodate their requests without "selling out?"...
    Brian Madden on August 20, 2007 : 33 comments , 13,685 views
  • A brief history of Xen and XenSource

    With the recent aquisition of XenSource by Citrix, it seems like a good idea to take a look at the history of Xen and XenSource. This will be brief, taking a look at where XenSource came from, its relationship with the Xen hypervisor, and the direction they've gone over the past few years....
    Gabe Knuth on August 16, 2007 : 25 comments , 24,069 views
  • An open letter from XenSource CEO to the community

    Yesterday XenSource's CEO Peter Levine puublished this letter to XenSource customers, partners and the community. ...
    Brian Madden on August 16, 2007 : 0 comments , 15,777 views
  • The industry pulse after the Citrix / XenSource acquisition

    Yesterday Citrix bought XenSource for $500 million. There have been hundreds of articles, blogs, and comments written about this. I’ve read every single one of them that I can find. In this article I’m going to try to summarize the more interesting theories and comments about what this acquisition means....
    Brian Madden on August 15, 2007 : 40 comments , 17,132 views
  • Citrix buys XenSource for $500M

    Citrix announced today that they were buying virtualization vendor XenSource for $500M. I wrote a detailed analysis of what this means when I first reported this news last Thursday. In this article, I'll share a few more thoughts that have emerged since then....
    Brian Madden on August 15, 2007 : 59 comments , 18,245 views
  • Help us shape BriForum 2007 Amsterdam. Vote on the sessions you'd like to see.

    BriForum 2007 Amsterdam is less than two months away. We invited the community to submit session abstracts, and we were overwhelmed with the response. Since this is a community event, we've decided to show you a list of sessions and let you vote on...
    Brian Madden on August 14, 2007 : 4 comments , 10,932 views
  • Webica.ini and the ICA 10.1 client

    Jeff Pitsch did a little digging and found out where the webica.ini file went in the 10.1 version of the ICA client. Thanks to Vista, things are different now....
    Brian Madden on August 14, 2007 : 1 comments , 15,591 views
  • Cool! The iQurious / visionapp Experience is now free

    At BriForum in Chicago this past April, Rick Dehlinger told me about a project he was working on called the "iQurious Experience." Based on visionapp's Platform Management Suite, the "Experience" is a product that automatically builds a complete working Presentation Server 4.5 environment in about 20 minutes....
    Brian Madden on August 14, 2007 : 2 comments , 12,804 views
  • Read our books interactively online

    We just updated the books section of our website so that readers can interactively browse through the books online. We're hoping that this enables the same kind of community discussions around our books that we've all enjoyed around our articles. What do you think?...
    Brian Madden on August 13, 2007 : 7 comments , 11,814 views