Yes and they bought it because they knew even then that they had to differentiate themselves to compete with VMware. Also that the market is more focused on virtualization solutions than they are on OS's. So if they want a piece of that action, they had to invest heavily in competing by developing Xen or something else. The bad part about Xen for vendors is that beyond the management tools, there's no way for them to have a monopoly on the underlining hypervisor and that's where the money is.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Evan Lavelle <sa212+...@cyconix.com> Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org; xen-disc...@opensolaris.org Sent: Fri, October 15, 2010 5:56:58 AM Subject: Re: [xen-discuss] [osol-discuss] XEN on OpenIndiana On 14/10/2010 18:24, Octave Orgeron wrote: > Even Red Hat has > realized this and are pushing their KVM agenda. RH are pushing KVM because they spent $107M on Qumranet, over 2 years ago. This also presumably explains why Fedora has been less than enthusiastic about Xen. _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list xen-disc...@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
