
The same XenServer Citrix made free and then didn't?
This is the same XenServer that, being a commercial product, Citrix first made available in a functionally limited free version (like ESXi free), then made it completely open source in 2013 with XenServer 6.2, only to completely reverse course in I believe 2017, returning it into a closed-source product (but now without the free version)?
Not that XenServer was a great product to begin with, but why would anyone in their right mind pay money for it when when XEN itself has been close to death for a while, and, in the longer term, virtualization itself appears to be headed for the way of the dodo in favor of containers (with maybe kubevirt remaining for legacy VMs) as well?