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[News] Microsoft Already Uses Novell and XenSource Hijacks to Exclude Other Distros from Market

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft Already Uses Novell and XenSource Hijacks to Exclude Other Distros from Market
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:47:27 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Microsoft’s virtualization hypervisor needs Red Hat support, too

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|     With efforts such as the interoperability lab, Microsoft is reinforcing 
|     its promise that when its hypervisor actually ships — now slated for late 
|     2008 — Novell’s SLES-based virtual machines will sing nicely on the 
|     Windows server platform.   
| 
|     That’s not all. On Sept 12, Microsoft and Sun also announced an expansion 
|     of their alliance in which the two companies will ensure that Sun’s 
|     Solaris VMs runs well on Windows and Windows runs well in a virtualized 
|     state on Solaris.   
| 
|     But what about Red Hat’s Xen-based virtual machines?
| 
|     The competitive standoff with Red Hat notwithstanding, Microsoft must 
|     realize by now that unless it extends the same level of compatibility to 
|     Red Hat Enterprise Linux and all other Linux distributions on its 
|     hypervisor that this gesture at interoperability is meaningless.   
| 
|     Microsoft’s alliance with XenSource once provided some measure of 
|     confidence that Red Hat would run as well on Viridian as Novell’s Linux. 
|     But Citrix’s planned acquisition of the open source XenSource calls that 
|     into question.   
| 
|     Citrix is one of Microsoft’s closest longtime allies in the proprietary 
|     software world and to date has not participated in the open source 
|     market. As Microsoft announced the planned release of the Viridian CTP 
|     yesterday at VMWorld, for example, it also unveiled an extended 
|     virtualization alliance with Citrix to standardize on Microsoft’s Virtual 
|     Hard Disk Format as a common run-time environment for virtualized 
|     operating systems and applications. That’s not surprising, given 
|     Microsoft’s former agreement with XenSource on VHD.       
| 
|     But the tightening triumverate of Microsoft, Novell and Citrix — three 
|     longtime proprietary software companies cooperating on virtualization 
|     technology — makes more than a few open source advocates and customers 
|     uneasy.   
| 
|     And the agreement with Sun on Wednesday — ensuring Solaris Linux runs 
|     well on Windows virtualization hypervisor — leaves Red Hat alone in the 
|     cold.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1415

SWsoft buys virtualization automation console from Ensim

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| Operating system virtualization company SWsoft announced on Tuesday that it 
| has acquired Ensim's software automation business. 
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2131228773&rid=-50

SUSE/VMWare gets 'optimised'...

Novell Boosts Linux Virtualization with VMware Support

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| To deliver this improved performance, Novell modified the SUSE Linux 
| Enterprise kernel to support the VMware Virtual Machine Interface (VMI), a 
| communication mechanism between the guest operating system and hypervisor 
| that simplifies the task of virtualization and makes Linux a more efficient 
| guest operating system when running in VMware environments.     
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http://www.examiner.com/p-40066~Novell_Boosts_Linux_Virtualization_with_VMware_Support.html

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