Novell, Intel, Xen and Microsoft

[Net Llama!]

Several prominent kernel developers expect Xen to die a fast death in the 
next year, primarily because its not been accepted in any upstream 
kernel, and KVM is expected to scale better.  If what you've posted below 
turns out to be true, it might very well be the final nail in Xen's 
coffin.

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> http://news.com.com/Novell+offers+faster+virtualized+Windows/2100-1012-6158196.html?part=dtx&tag=nl.e703
>
> """In addition, Novell plans to announce that through its patent and
> technology partnership with Microsoft, rival Microsoft will provide joint
> technical support for customers running Windows Server 2003 R3 atop a
> platform of Xen from SLES."""
>
> It may not matter much to some of you, but for me, this is big.  It could yet
> turn out that Novell has "taken one for the team" on this deal...
>
> YMMV
>
>

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lonni J Friedman                        netllama at linux-sxs.org
LlamaLand				http://netllama.linux-sxs.org