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Oracle Is Latest To Take On VMware

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Sun also releasing Xen-based virtualization by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "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.

    Sun is also rolling out a Xen-based virtualization solution called Sun xVM.

    More info at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/

    This is a feature separate from Solaris Zones (OS virtualization) or
    Brands (run Linux or Solaris 8 zones on Solaris 10) or hardware domains.