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- <title>Welcome to xen.org, home of the Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization.</title>
+ <title>Welcome to xen.org, the home of the Xen® Project which develops hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization.</title>
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- <p>The Xen® Hypervisor, is an open source virtualization platform that powers the world's
- <a href="/community/vendors/VirtualPrivateServerProviders.html">largest clouds in production</a> and
+ <p>The Xen® Project, is an open source community that develops virtualization platforms powering the
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world's <a href="/community/vendors/VirtualPrivateServerProviders.html">largest clouds in production</a> and
is the foundation of many <a href="http://xen.org/community/vendors/XenProductsPage.html">commercial
- products</a>. Xen® powers public clouds such as <i>Amazon Web Services</i>, <i>Rackspace Public
- Cloud</i> and many others. Examples of Xen based server products include <i>Huawei UVP</i>, <i>Oracle VM</i>
- and <i>XenServer</i>. Examples of client products and appliances include <i>QubesOS</i>, <i>XenClient</i>
- and <i>Netscaler</i>. Xen is <a href="/community/xenhistory.html">9 years old</a>, mature and its stability
- and versatility is second to none.</p>
+ products</a>. Technolkogy developed by the Xen® Project powers public clouds such as <i>Amazon Web Services</i>,
+ <i>Rackspace Public Cloud</i> and many others. Examples of Xen based server products include <i>Huawei UVP</i>,
+ <i>Oracle VM</i> and <i>XenServer</i>. Examples of client products and appliances include <i>QubesOS</i>, <i>XenClient</i>
+ and <i>Netscaler</i>. The Xen Project is <a href="/community/xenhistory.html">10 years old</a>, and the technology it
+ has created is mature and its stability and versatility is second to none.</p>
- <h2>Xen Variants</h2>
- <p>The Xen community has created a number of open source solutions for specific purposes:</p>
+ <h2>Xen Projects</h2>
+ <p>The Xen® Project has created a number of open source technologies for specific purposes:</p>
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<li>The <b>Xen® Hypervisor</b> is the open source standard for hardware virtualization and the
foundation for all solutions hosted on Xen.org. — <a href="/products/xenhyp.html">Learn More</a></li>
<li><b>Xen ARM</b> is a Xen based Hypervisor that targets embedded and mobile devices on
the ARM architecture. — <a href="/products/xen_arm.html">Learn More</a></li>
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- <p>If you are unsure, which Xen variant is best for you, you may want to read the
+ <p>If you are unsure, which Xen project is best for you, you may want to read the
<a href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Overview">Xen Overview</a> document which introduces Xen's
architecture, components and some of the key choices you will have to make.</p>
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