How to (Almost) Kill a Successful Project and Bring It Back to Life Again: Lessons Learned from the Xen Project (37 pages)
the xen project story (30 second version) • it enjoyed a very high rate of adoption • it employed excellent technology • it had a foss-friendly corporation behind it • birthday

The Xen Project Story (30 second
version)
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It was the first industrial-strength Open Source
Hypervisor
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It enjoyed a very high rate of adoption
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It employed excellent technology
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It had a FOSS-friendly corporation behind it
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And, yet, 2 years ago, it ran the risk of being
abandoned by the FOSS community before its 10
th
birthday