Oracle Is Latest To Take On VMware 109
BobB writes "Oracle is going after its piece of the hot virtualization market by introducing an open source Xen-based hypervisor to compete against those from Novell, Red Hat, and VMware. Oracle VM, unveiled Monday at the Oracle OpenWorld convention in San Francisco, enables virtualization on Oracle and non-Oracle software applications and on the Linux and Windows OSs. It also operates on industry-standard x86- and x86-64-based servers. Oracle claims it offers virtualization at a lower cost than competitors can." VMware stock dropped over 10% on the news; Oracle's stock rose. The market was not punishing Oracle for the unpatched zero-day vulnerability (public exploit available) that the company won't patch until Jan. 15.
Sun also releasing Xen-based virtualization (Score:5, Informative)
Sun is also rolling out a Xen-based virtualization solution called Sun xVM [sun.com].
More info at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/ [opensolaris.org]
This is a feature separate from Solaris Zones (OS virtualization [opensolaris.org]) or
Brands (run Linux or Solaris 8 zones on Solaris 10 [opensolaris.org]) or hardware domains.
Now fix the licensing (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Any word on if it works (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Unbreakable Xen (Score:3, Informative)