Oracle Unveils Oracle(R) VM
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| Faster, Cheaper and Scalable Server Virtualization; Fully Supported for
| Deploying Oracle and Linux
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| Oracle today announced Oracle(R) VM, server virtualization software which
| supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM14012112007-1.htm
Oracle virtualization 3x better than the competition?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6966
Oracle takes on VMware, others, with its own hypervisor
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| By offering Oracle VM support at lower prices, Oracle again is pursuing a
| strategy it revealed last year when it offered less-expensive support for the
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system than Red Hat does. By offering a
| Xen-based hypervisor, just as Red Hat and Novell do, Oracle could increase
| its competitive pressure.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/111207-oracle-hypervisor.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Oracle adds virtualization as VMware shares fall
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| Mware shares fell 8.4 percent after executives at Oracle, the world's
| second-largest software maker, demonstrated the product before thousands of
| customers at a conference in San Francisco. Oracle shares rose as much as 2.9
| percent.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/071112/oracle_virtualization.html?.v=4
Related:
RedHat Thinks Software Should Come In A Virtual Machine
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| Wouldn’t it be nice if the enterprise software world were on board with your
| server virtualization efforts? Imagine downloading the latest version of
| PeopleSoft or Crystal Reports in a virtual server format that could be loaded
| on to VMware ESX and would just run – no installation, no configuration
| hassles, just instantiate and go.
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http://blogs.forrester.com/it_infrastructure/2007/11/redhat-thinks-s.html
Virtualization: A feature of the hardware, not the OS?
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| "Even though Xen has been part of (Linux products) for a while, it's really
| just now getting ready for prime time," Haff said. "VMware is still very much
| the dominant player in virtualization."
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6206867.html
VMware Hypervisor Takes Up Residence in New Servers
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| "VMware is trying to get as broad of an installed base as it can in advance
| of the Linux and Microsoft initiatives because once you make a commitment to
| the VMware technology, you're going to be less likely to purchase something
| from Microsoft or Linux," Enck concluded.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59264.html
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