The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly.
Next year, Citrix will make its XenDesktop and XenApp client and server software for remote access to Windows applications available for the iPhone.
As virtualsation technology gets increasing attention from large enterprises, the founder of the Xen open source project said recently that Xen will develop more quickly compared with competitors, including Microsoft and VMware.
Red Hat has pushed out the first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, an upgrade to its operating system that includes virtualisation technologies intended to help companies get more use from their hardware.
Virtualisation was a hot topic at the recent Red Hat Open Source Symposium held in Auckland.