The 451 Group: The 'Big Four' Systems Management Vendors Are Ripe for a
Shake-up From Open Source Players
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| The 451 Group has found that the 'Big Four' systems management vendors (BMC,
| HP, IBM and CA) are ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management
| players. In the past 18 months, open source options in the systems management
| space have grown to include a new set of vendors, backing open source systems
| management projects with commercial-grade support offerings.
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http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070730005611&newsLang=en
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
Related:
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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