“Two weeks ago Microsoft and XenSource announced an agreement to grant interoperability of virtual machines on upcoming Windows Server Virtualization and XenEnterprise virtualization platforms. The move raised the attention of the whole IT world, involving license, support, security, and performance issues. Virtualization.info interviewed both companies to understand the details of the agreement and shed light on what customers can expect from the Microsoft hypervisor release.”
I see this as a huge boon for Xen as the wars continue on the Linux Kernel Mailinglist over Xen and VMWare.
With someone as big as Microsoft partnering with Xen, it means they are serious about virtualization. This has to be bad news for VMWare and anyone who works there.
“With someone as big as Microsoft partnering with Xen, it means they are serious about virtualization. This has to be bad news for VMWare and anyone who works there.”
.. Or serious about killing Xen.
If you look at past close MS partners (Symantec rings a bell? [1]) suddenly this deal doesn’t look quite good as it did.
Microsoft’s tactic always been 3E:
Embrace, Extend and Extinguish.
G.
[1] http://www.techspot.com/news/20458-microsoft-antispyware-labels-sym…