Xandros Launches Xandros Server Standard Edition 2

Published: May 15, 2007

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

As expected, commercial Linux distributor Xandros last week announced the next iteration of its server platform. Xandros Server 2, is the first commercial release of the "Etch" Debian 4.0 platform.

Xandros was expected to deliver an entry product, called Xandros Server Standard Edition 2, as well as a beefier version called Advanced Server 2. The first product was announced last week, including a special edition with the Scalix email server included as a bundle. Standard Sever 2 includes integrated support for the open source Xen virtual machine hypervisor from XenSource, just like the latest Linuxes from Red Hat and Novell do. The new server release also includes server backup, streaming media, virtual private network, and system monitoring tools, which are called the Xandros Management Console, or XMC.

Xandros Server 2 it is compliant with the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 3.1 specification from the newly formed Linux Foundation as well.

Xandros Server Standard Edition 2 costs $449 per server for the base license, which includes 90 days of installation support and Web-based support. A year of basic support for Xandros Server 2 costs $899, and a year of premium support costs $2,098. The company gives a significant discount to firms that ink three-year support contracts, too. The electronic edition of Xandros Sever 2 was available as of last week, and the boxed set, with media and manuals, will be available about three weeks from now.

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