Xen's only real competition to date is EMC VMWare ESX (that expensive
hypervisor, not the giveaway version) - the other hypervisor based
product for x86/64 systems.
As of May 2006 announcements, MS is supposed to release a
hypervisor-based system 6 months after Stinkhorn Server is RTM
(http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=419844&SiteID=17).
So, that (may) take care of the low-level performance issues which
separate MSVS2005 from the likes of VMWare and Xen. Now if Xen can do
some more catchup with VMWare (it must in the management interface at
the very least), and if MS releases anything like the comedic
management interface it had for MSVS, then Xen is still sitting pretty.
-Gary
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Xen founder says project will stay on top
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "Microsoft are very much in catch-up," said Ian Pratt,
> | chief science officer for XenSource and professor at
> | the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
> |
> | Speaking on the sidelines of LinuxWorld in London,
> | Pratt said, "Xen has the advantage that there's a
> | large development community who all are highly
> | motivated to make Xen look good. That means that
> | Xen does move really fast. Anything new that happens
> | gets done on Xen first."
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=861255962&rid=-50
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