Xen Directions Intro Slides

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This document contains an agenda for the Xen Directions Europe 2009 event. It begins with a quote from Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, praising the Xen community for being helpful and a big reason why Amazon selected Xen. It then lists the mission statement of Xen.org and the day's agenda, which includes presentations from representatives of Citrix Systems, HP, Intel, University of Madrid, Oracle, Citrix Systems again, Lufthansa Systems, AMD, and concluding with Stephen Spector of Citrix Systems and Xen.org.

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