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Information Technology News Microsoft to use Xen to fight VMware | Microsoft to use Xen to fight VMware |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 19 July 2006 | |
  
Under the agreement, Microsoft's Longhorn Server virtualization software will provide support for Linux guest operating systems, supported in partnership with XenSource. This would be the first time that Microsoft has provided virtualization support for Linux guest operating systems running on a Windows host. In virtualization technology, Microsoft lags considerably behind market leader VMware, owned by EMC, and up and coming open source player XenSource. Both VMware and XenSource have hypervisor technology while Microsoft is not planning to release a hypervisor until at least 2008. The move to form an alliance with XenSource, which is a Microsoft competitor, is being widely seen as a stop gap measure for Microsoft to curb the rising dominance of VMware until Longhorn ships in the distant future. {moscomment} |
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