Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: [News] Linux Virtualisation on IBM's POWER5 Architecture

begin  oe_protect.scr 
Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@xxxxxx> espoused:
> 
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>> Virtualization and [IBM]
> 
> Also kind of "[NEWS]":
> 
> ------
> Microsoft has 253 patent applications since 2001 that mention
> ?virtual?in the ABSTRACT field and Microsoft in the ASSIGNEE field.
> Refined to ?virtual machine? in the ABSTRACT field there are 52.
> 
> International Business Machines has 59 applications for ?virtual
> machine? in the ABSTRACT field.
> 
> http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
> 
> With all the controversy about the Microsoft-Novell agreement and
> ?virtual servers?, it is becoming obvious that ?virtual machines? 
> is the targeted market Microsoft is after.
> 
> IBM excels in the manufacture of hardware for ?virtual machines? 
> (e.g. the zSeries servers).
> 
> Will IBM soon move away from Novell and into the Red Hat camp, 
> signing a similar patent deal to threaten Microsoft with respect 
> to virtual machines?

It's a good question, but I do not think that Red Hat will be foolish
enough to offend the free software world by reaching such an agreement.
The big difference between Red Hat and Novell is that Novell are a
proprietary company at heart, whereas Red Hat are not.

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Penalty for private use.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index