Some of the changes in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2008 are a response to features and performance advantages that have made Linux an attractive option to Microsoft customers. One of these is the fact that Linux has less of a surface area, which led customers to believe that Linux is inherently more secure, Bill Laing, the general manager for Microsoft's Windows Server division, told eWEEK. "Having less surface area does reduce the servicing and the amount of code you have running and exposed, so we have done a lot of work in 2008 to make the system more modular. There are more than 30 components not installed by default, which is a huge change," Laing said. "We also have server core, which doesn't have the GUI, so I would say that is a response to the options people had with Linux that they didn't have with Windows."
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Member since:2005-07-10
Asked if Windows was lagging behind Linux on the virtualization front, McDonald said: "I can't think of a time when anybody in production with a lot of virtualization has said to me that Linux is better than Windows in this regard."
Ugh, go away...
On the high end market - VMWare with their ESX offering are far ahead of MS and XEN.
On the lower end of market, VMWare free server, workstation, Microsoft Virtual server and Microsoft Virtual PC compete.
Linux so far has not offered a competing solution with high reliablity or managability. But that is changing really fast.
KVM is coming up nice to compete in the lower end market and XEN needs more adoption and better management tools and it should be able compete on the higher end market (with ESX and yet to come MS product viridian).
Edited 2007-05-19 03:13
Member since:2005-11-10
The funny thing though is that ESX is built on.....
Guess what???
LINUX. LOL!
But I use Open VZ and Virtuozzo on Linux in production and they work very well.
http://www.swsoft.com/en/virtuozzo
Edited 2007-05-19 03:37
Member since:
2007-02-11
I agree, and I still can't believe my own eyes; let's just hope it doesn't go the Vista way -- tons of features announced and none that make it in the final version.
The rest of the article is common Microsoft advertising, but this doesn't make the news go away. There's one thing that made me laugh though:
Asked if Windows was lagging behind Linux on the virtualization front, McDonald said: "I can't think of a time when anybody in production with a lot of virtualization has said to me that Linux is better than Windows in this regard."
Ugh, go away...