Microsoft losing Virtualization rear guard action...
Seems Microsoft is trying to keep the Virtualization playing field uneven everywhere. As I mentioned recently they have an extremely restrictive Vista license around virtualization ostensibly to protect us poor little users.
It seems in the enterprise space they have a whole host of further restrictions which VMware delight to detail. No doubt they are hitting some Sun customers already deploying VMware and in the future Xen.
Love VMware or hate them one thing is for sure, in the Windows Virtualization space Diane Green is kicking poor Steve Ballmer all over the place. Perhaps Diane should give Steve Jobs a ring and they could tag team against Ballmer and Gates.
There is however a more strategic longer term fix, start migrating to applications and ISVs who won't sell you on a platform then kick you in the teeth every few years. Choose as a base an Open Source OS with strong virtualization offerings, Solaris: Dynamic system Domains, LDoms, Containers and more coming...
It seems in the enterprise space they have a whole host of further restrictions which VMware delight to detail. No doubt they are hitting some Sun customers already deploying VMware and in the future Xen.
Love VMware or hate them one thing is for sure, in the Windows Virtualization space Diane Green is kicking poor Steve Ballmer all over the place. Perhaps Diane should give Steve Jobs a ring and they could tag team against Ballmer and Gates.
There is however a more strategic longer term fix, start migrating to applications and ISVs who won't sell you on a platform then kick you in the teeth every few years. Choose as a base an Open Source OS with strong virtualization offerings, Solaris: Dynamic system Domains, LDoms, Containers and more coming...
Posted by Alain HONOREZ on February 28, 2007 at 03:51 AM MST #