Although Xen has been around for a while now, it still seems to lurk in the shadows of other virtualization products from VMware and Microsoft. At a time when these other companies were selling their virtualization goods for top dollar, Xen was going to fill a niche market--free virtualization for the masses. Unfortunately, it wasn't long until VMware began giving away Player and then announced that the popular GSX Server platform would change names to VMware Server and would also be distributed freely. Microsoft also jumped on the 'free' bandwagon as it began giving away its pride and joy, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. "So where does that leave Xen...? **************** ***************************** Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# Plot 80 Kanjokya Street P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 77 2972255 +256 71 2221141 Fax: +256 31 2262122 ***************************************************************** |
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