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
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