Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Virtualization is all the rage these days, and market leader EMC owned VMWare has finally brought its free virtualization platform, VMware Server, to market after five months of beta testing. From all accounts, the beta version has been a roaring success attracting hundreds of thousands of downloads and multiplying the company's user base many times.
What VMware enables users to do is run multiple operating systems in
virtual machines on a single server based on 32-bit x86 or 64-bit x64
architecture. VMware can be installed on both Microsoft Windows or
Linux servers, which can then divide up the server into vitrual
machines running a range of guest operating systems such as Solaris,
Netware, Windows and Linux.
VMware used to charge for its virtualization product but with a free
open source XenSource product in the offing, VMware decide to head its
competitors off at the pass to win as many customers as possible. In
response to VMware's move, Microsoft also announced that its Virtual PC
2004 software is now free.
With estimates of almost 1 million licenses, VMware's market leadership
seems assured at least in the short term. From all accounts, its
product is way superior to that of Microsoft and, unlike XenSource's
product, it's here now. It seems that with an open source player like
XenSource in the mix, the model of making money for virtualization
players will be nothing up front plus annual support fees.
David Bass
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