Xen Hypervisor: The Future of Enterprise IT?
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| At what point does a "standardized" solution become "the industry
| standard"?
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| Simon Crosby, CTO at XenSource, has begun calling Xen the "de facto
| standard" hypervisor for virtualization--despite the fact that
| enterprise-ready Xen solutions have spent just months in the market and as
| yet have virtually no market share.
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| Gartner's Weiss also sees standardization as the wave of the future,
| pointing to the recent announcement by Novell and Microsoft as an example.
| "There is already a recognition that it is senseless to continue to battle
| each other where standards could grow the market," he says.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3642816
Speculation: Microsoft pulled XenSource in order to control the standard, be
ahead, and 'extend' (as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish ), as well
as have Linux servers slaved (secondary) in the datacentres. The recent Zend
partnership was used to optimise PHP for better performance under Windows.
With Mozilla, they incorporated Vista-only elements, thereby making OS X and
Linux secondary, if not neglected.
Microsoft is not 'nice' to Open Source. It's taking advantage or it and turns
it against itself.
Also today:
Virtualization, wireless and open source: It's time to grow up
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| Virtualization, mobility and open source are among the most
| promising technologies for enabling companies to become more
| agile, but these network and IT advances still have a lot of
| maturing to do, according to analysts at an IT conference
| in Boston this week.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/110806-virtualization-mobility-opensource.html
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