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Desperately Seeking Xen

Posted by kdawson on from the whither-the-gorilla-killer dept.

AlexGr sends us to an excellent article on the state of Xen by Jeff Gould (Peerstone Research). He concludes that the virtualization technology has some maturing to do and will face increasing competition for the privilege of taking on VMWare. Quoting: "What's going on with Xen, the open source hypervisor that was supposed to give VMware a run for its money? I can't remember how many IT trade press articles, blog posts and vendor white papers I've read about Xen in the last few years... The vast majority of those articles — including a few I've written myself — take it as an article of faith that Xen's paravirtualizing technical approach and open source business model are inherently superior to the closed source alternatives from VMware or Microsoft."

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  1. The Problem With Xen by Aeonite · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that Gordon Freeman ruined it.

  2. Re:Linux has inbuilt virtualisation .... by sglines · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for pointing to a virtually empty wikipedia article.