Oracle Is Latest To Take On VMware

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 12, 2007 @08:26PM from the virtual-virtual-everywhere dept.

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.

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Re:Relevance by timmarhy · 2007-11-12 20:37 · Score: 3, Funny

never let facts or logic get in the way of bashing a big company!

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Re:Sun also releasing Xen-based virtualization by morgan_greywolf · 2007-11-13 03:45 · Score: 2, Funny

No, most of us are smart enough to hide our spam carefully in the form of the insightful or informative commentary. For instance, did you know that Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, uses H3RB4L V1@GRA!!!!

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