Will Microsoft Buy Citrix? The Finance World's Perspective

posted by  vincent (90)  14 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

I was perusing around the internet earlier this week and found this article posted back during the Citrix/Xen merger:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2171434,00.asp

In that article, the author discusses the possibility that Citrix's acquisition of Xen combined with all the problems that Microsoft is having with their own virtualization solution (Veridian) may drive Microsoft to actually buy Citrix.

He writes:

Could Citrix Systems' purchase of XenSource for $500 million be a prelude to Microsoft's acquisition of Citrix?


Some analysts, like Brenon Daly and his colleagues at The 451 Group, in San Francisco, think so.

"Citrix built a $1 billion-plus business on the back of its access to