Novell, Intel, Xen and Microsoft

[Net Llama!]

At this point, most of the kernel developers consider anything that Novell 
touches to be damaged goods.  If Xen wasn't in trouble before, it surely 
is now with Novell backing it.

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Novell has been behind Xen for a couple years now, including all sorts of
> support for it.  Not that Novell's backing is golden or anything, but it's
> significant.
>
> On Monday 12 February 2007 11:06, Net Llama! wrote:
>> 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/2100-1012-61
>>> 58196.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
>
>

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