Virtualisation values may be virtual insanity
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| One company, VMware reached a valuation of almost $20 billion within hours of
| it floating.
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http://theinquirer.net/?article=41770
Will Citrix OS Streaming Deliver Vista Or Linux?
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| The big question here is whether Microsoft will want to encourage running
| Vista on an open-source hypervisor rather than its own Viridian. That will
| depend on how far Viridian gets beyond the vaporware stage, as well as the
| exact license adopted by the new consortium to which Citrix plans to hand
| over responsibility for free Xen. Microsoft would likely reject any
| client-side code released under GPL v3, thanks to a clause forbidding use in
| any consumer hardware that uses digital signatures to prevent users loading
| their own software.
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http://www.networkcomputing.com/channels/storageandservers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201800659&cid=RSSfeed_TechWeb
http://tinyurl.com/3af6os
Related:
Microsoft flip-flops on Vista virtualization
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| Software like Parallels Desktop for the Mac or Microsoft's own Virtual
| PC for Windows allow multiple operating systems to run simultaneously.
| When it announced licensing rules for Vista last year, Microsoft said
| that only Vista Business and Vista Ultimate could run as guest
| operating systems. The company said virtualization presents inherent
| security risks and that it hoped by limiting which versions of the OS
| could act as virtual machines, only sophisticated users and businesses
| would employ the tactic.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6191787.html
Microsoft Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux
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| Microsoft will not allow Windows Vista or Windows XP to be virtualized on top
| of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director of Microsoft's open-source software lab,
| said at the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here Aug. 7.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168183,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Will Microsoft Buy the New Citrix?
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| VMware, holding some 85 percent of the market, with its VI3 technologies
| offers a fully integrated stack and represents a third generation of
| virtualization technology, while Viridian and Xen-based products, including
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, XenEnterprise
| and Virtual Iron, remain second-generation products, the report stated.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2171434,00.asp
What the XenSource deal says about open source
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| This is what Citrix is paying for. That and a close relationship with
| Microsoft that looks likely to get closer. “We will be building dynamic
| virtualization services and management tools on top of Viridian,” Levine
| added. “We will build the same set of products we’ve built on top of Xen for
| Viridian. We’ve already hired a team to go do that up in Redmond.”
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| While Citrix maintained it will continue support for the Xen project, this
| deal is not about a proprietary vendor getting open source religion. It's
| about grabbing an emerging player in a rapidly expanding sector of the
| market.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/08/what_the_xensou.html
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