Novel and Microsoft

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 08:05 -0700, George Toft wrote:
> My $0.015 (not quite 2 cents) worth . . .
> 
> Like the article points out, virtualization is a huge trend in the IT 
> industry.  Full virtualization (VMWare, MS Virtual Server) are slow 
> compared to paravirtualization (Xen).  Companies are looking to 
> consolidate and virtualize servers, so if Microsoft partners with a 
> Linux company that already has a paravirt product, then they sell more 
> OS licenses.
> 
> Red Hat states that with paravirtualization under Xen 3.0.3, near native 
> speeds are achievable.  Anyone who has used VMWare knows it is nowhere 
> near native-speed.  In my own Xen experiments, it is very responsive and 
> snappy.  [Side note - I went to Fry's to price out a mobo/CPU/RAM combo 
> that would support Xen - just $800!!!]
> 
> There are two Linux vendors that support Xen - SuSE (AKA Novell) and Red 
> Hat (well, not yet, but they will next year when RHEL5 comes out).  The 
> MS/Novell team will perfect running Windows under Xen and take the 
> market by storm.  95% of Fortune 500 companies use Novell products (saw 
> that somewhere).  100% use Microsoft.  These two companies are already 
> deep inside corporate America.  Red Hat isn't.
> 
> The next few years are going to be really interesting.
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the only thing left to ponder is...

which part of 'embrace, extend and extinguish' is it that Novell doesn't
get?

Craig