Linux distribution vendors now recognize that Solaris has taken a lead in one dimension of virtualization - that of an application environment - with its Container technology. Virtualizing the application environment, the application/OS interface is
much more lightweight and efficient performance-wise than virtualizing the OS/HW interface. Actually both approaches are complementary and may even be used together to archieve different goals.
A CNet News Article summarizes their plans for technologies similiar to Solaris Containers. Yet this will still take some time, whereas Solaris Containers are already deployed in production.
For those in the neighbourhood of Stuttgart, Germany the next Solaris@STEP
event on Sep. 13 may be interesting at which Jörg Hoss from TDS will talk about their use of Solaris Containers to run SAP environments (in german).
