VMware has unveiled a technology consortium of hardware, software and service providers, with the aim to jointly-develop virtual desktop products. Called the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance, the new consortium counts several technology vendors as members including Altiris, Atos Origin, Check Point Software Technologies, Citrix, ClearCube Technology, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Wyse Technology.
Just another example of IBM and Sun hedging their bets on open source. Not that you can blame them on this one though…VMware is pretty freaking nice and they are corporations after all.
That’s a lot of different groups with their hands in a single effort.
Another useless PR garbage froM VMWare. Their software are quite ok, because there are no lot of virtual machine software around these days – and those who would support Linux primarly is lacking too. But their desperate to keep attention from Xen is starting to look very sad.
p.s. please fix post, it is VMWare, not VMware.
I’m afraid you’re pretty clueless.Xen is quite a different virtualisation aproach.Can you install novell netware for example as guest on linux with xen (by default:-)?
Both Google and Vmware are on my alltime favorite list for quite some time now.
For servers the sky is allmost the limit.Great software.
Edited 2006-04-27 15:57