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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the not game by onescomplement · 2007-11-12 21:14 · Score: -1, Troll

Oracle is an expert at 3 things: The not game. What are they _not_ telling me? The relentless pursuit of nothing. Our aspirin is better than yours. Fear, fear, always. Because that's their organizational model and you must be fearful, too! Our sales people are scared shitless, they feed off pointy-haired execs, ideologues sans reason, and now you must be afraid, too. Reason is not sense. Sense is not reason. Yield to our reality. BTW, Dick Cheney's been appointed to their board.