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Companies that compete, sometimes have to cooperate.
And, if Microsoft wants their OS to run on all of the various VMs, they need to cooperate. That said, because Xen is open source, they might not cooperate. They might see more value in blocking open source than in being on all platforms. But, that could hurt them as the competition will be running Linux on Xen and getting a lot more bang for the buck. I don't see Microsoft getting much of the utility computing market. People want to be able to do their own tweaking rather than begging Microsoft, and when you have 10,000 serveres, MS gets very, very, pricey. Add to that the licensing restrictions, and Microsoft is going nowhere fast in utility computing.
Posted by: DonnieBoy   Posted on: 03/07/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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I see Hypervisor taking the market.  nucrash | 03/07/05
Microsoft will only need to support a hypervisor, not hardware.  DonnieBoy | 03/07/05
or multiple distros...  linuxoverwindows | 03/07/05
Yes, this will be great for testing, but for production,  DonnieBoy | 03/07/05
It is not that MS will do anything to hurt open source  balsover | 03/07/05
Companies that compete, sometimes have to cooperate.  DonnieBoy | 03/07/05
With VMWare making  Roger Ramjet | 03/07/05
There's a lot of companies out there  Michael Kelly | 03/07/05
What are the others?  nucrash | 03/07/05
Any company that adds  Michael Kelly | 03/07/05
companies going out of business  clockmendergb@... | 03/07/05
Well on a 64 Processor Server  nucrash | 03/07/05
Even better is Groupwise  htotten | 03/07/05
Dark Corner of the Universe  TheBob_z | 03/08/05
Virutualization makes little sense  ITGuy04 | 03/07/05
True for now, but Xen is comming, and you can even partition blade servers.  DonnieBoy | 03/07/05
Forget blades  Roger Ramjet | 03/08/05
You can virtualize on $3K 1U Pizza boxes also...  Plain Logic | 03/07/05
Also saves on HBAs for SAN --- $1K each...  Plain Logic | 03/07/05
Xen will be free, and faster than the current version of VMWare.  DonnieBoy | 03/07/05
RE: With VMWare making  adsanders@... | 03/07/05
Photoshop will run on both?  tony@... | 03/07/05
Contrary data point (corrected)  Joel R | 03/07/05
acrobat 6 and AMD  clockmendergb@... | 03/07/05
Until AMD publishes the specs...  Filker0_z | 03/07/05
In the Past  nucrash | 03/07/05
Contrary data point  Joel R | 03/07/05
TopView  thomasderk@... | 03/07/05
will MS allow it?  EDinNY | 03/07/05
Run more than one copy of the same OS  Prognosticator | 03/07/05
MS will have to decide that ...  George Mitchell | 03/07/05
Oh Please  SmartGuy | 03/07/05

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