Wintel cold war gets a virtual thaw
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| Neil also emphasised Microsoft's newly co-operative attitude with
| Novell. "We've been working with Novell to optimise Linux on our platform,"
| Neil said. "I never thought I'd hear that statement," Intel's James
| responded.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14547/53/
Microsoft To Ship Release Candidate of Windows Server 2008 Next Week
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| Neil showed Viridian running Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Edition on
| Windows Server. Novell and Microsoft are partners in building
| interoperability between the two operating systems.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201807914
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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?
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| 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
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