History
Xen originated as a research project at the University of Cambridge, led by Ian Pratt, senior lecturer at Cambridge and founder of XenSource, Inc. The first public release of Xen was made in 2003.
Xen has been supported originally by XenSource Inc., and since the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix in October 2007. This organisation supports the development of the free software project and also sells enterprise versions of the software.
On 22 October 2007, Citrix Systems completed its acquisition of XenSource, and the Xen project moved to http://www.xen.org/. This move had started some time previously, and made public the existence of the Xen Project Advisory Board (Xen AB), which had members from Citrix, IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems and Oracle.
The Xen Advisory Board advises the Xen project leader and is responsible for the Xen trademark, which Citrix has freely licensed to all vendors and projects that implement the Xen hypervisor.
Confusingly, Citrix has also used the Xen brand itself for some proprietary products unrelated to Xen, including at least "XenApp" and "XenDesktop".
The Xen project itself is self-governing.
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