Paul G. Allen wrote: > ....a good technology because it usually ends in them trying to (or > successfully) co-opt it. > > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jul06/07-17MSXenSourcePR.mspx > > > PGA
I noticed the other day that the emergence of XEN is making everyone move quickly to shore up their position in the virtualization market space... http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn071306-story01.html I had not seen the piece on M$ and XEN but... If that's not a lawyer with a knife behind his back and litigation papers to try to shut down XEN in the long run, it looks to me like this will make Linux a viable alternative to those M$ homer admins that wouldn't even consider something that doesn't otherwise have a M$ stamp of approval on it... BTW, doesn't the current M$ virtualization product only allow M$ "guests" right now? Here is an example... I held off purchasing the VMWare v5 Workstation and just stuck with v4.5.2 because it works well with FC4 and just about every Linux distro I throw at it (LiveCD's for the most part). Now VMWare Server v1.0 is out and it is free and all my previous VM's run fine. I burned a copy of VMWare Server v1.0 for Windows for a M$ programmer that doesn't have the M$ virtualization product (something about cost as I recall) and their reaction was, "yeah, I know all about that stuff". In other words they basically are of the opinion that anything other than a M$ product is not only inferior but it just isn't worth their time, effort or money (as in they would rather wait until they can give M$ their money). I think the recent moves by companies and developers all around related to XEN shows this is expected to be a huge factor in the direction of computing systems and XEN may be the "next big thing" that marginalizes M$ to "just another OS platform among a variety that can run the same apps. rbw -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
