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)

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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