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Oracle 'Losing Patience' with XenSource, VMware
HiTech writes "eWeek has an article looking at Oracle's frustration with both XenSource and VMware over their reluctance to work together. The goal is to develop a single interface for virtualization solutions in the Linux kernel. Oracle's comments follow those by Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman at Oscon last week that XenSource and VMware were butting heads instead of working together to come up with a joint solution. Brian Byun, VMware's vice president of products and alliances, admits the company had been approached by a neutral third party for offline mediation to establish how best to make this happen. But Simon Crosby, the CTO for XenSource, rules out any mediation, saying he believes the two companies are committed to solving the real technical issues."
That's like saying because it's opensource ReiserFS has to code using the exact same kernel hooks specific ext3 as they are all opensource and do the same thing (filesystem). Or that all network protocols can only talk using the telnet protocol as it's opensource, not patented, everyone must be forced into using just that, no direct use of http, ssh, SIP, etc everything must now be tunneled in the existing telnet process. With both those examples technically it could be done, you could try and force resier to use ext3 specific extentions, you could tunnel all network communication inside a telnet session, but IS IT SMART?
Ever think that maybe one might have a feature set that the other doesn't? Ever think that maybe someone has a different thought than Xen? Ever think that maybe some other opensource project could do something better than Xen? Are you really this short-sighted?