Mission Creep: Open Source Virtualization Usage Models Proliferate
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| Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been available for a few months, we
| are starting to see how customers are actually going to use virtualization.
| This allows us to get to the truth behind the hype.
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http://www.verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails.asp?aid=57777&pm=1
Red Hat ramps up virtualization drive for RHEL 5
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2514
VMware starts road show ahead of planned IPO
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| VMware could be the hottest IPO of the year, according to analysts. Its
| revenues are growing at an annual rate of about 100 percent, and businesses
| have just started to develop a taste for virtualization software.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN3127229820070731?rpc=44
Related:
Dell, Sun Could Suffer As Virtualization Cuts Down Server Sales
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| He also says the trend will accelerate the cannibalization of Unix servers by
| x86 servers, which is trouble for Sun Microsystems (SUNW). He notes that Sun
| has more than 50% unit share of the Unix server market, and gets more than a
| third of its revenue from Unix servers.
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http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/07/30/dell-sun-could-suffer-as-virtualization-cuts-down-server-sales/?mod=yahoobarrons
The Year of Virtualization
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| I think that Windows will continue to succumb to Linux in the data
| center, MySQL and Postgres will continue to win projects that once
| fell to Oracle and DB/2.
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http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/162110_p.htm
Virtualization: Linux's killer app
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| Think about it. Even Microsoft supports running Linux on its Virtual
| Server product. Why would it do that? Wouldn't an OS partitioning
| technology, such as that used by OpenVz or Sun Solaris, be more in
| keeping with the kind of homogeneous environments that Microsoft
| would like to see? Why would Microsoft invest its resources to
| support a virtual machine technology that can only open the
| door to Linux in the datacenter?
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/19/08OPopenent_1.html
Virtualisation gets trendy
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| The fact that so many areas of IT are affected by virtualisation is
| perhaps testament to how fundamental a concept it is to separate
| computer resource from the underlying physical hardware and
| demonstrates this is a strategic issue with a broad impact
| that has to be considered at the highest levels of IT management.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/06/virtualisation_gets_trendy/
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