Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Oracle takes on VMware, others, with its own hypervisor

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LinuxWorld's Linux and Open Source News Alert, 11/14/07

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Oracle takes on VMware, others, with its own hypervisor November 12, 2007
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 operating systems. It also operates on industry-standard x86- and x86-64-based servers. Oracle claims it offers virtualization at a cost that's lower than competitors' prices.

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The Oracle announcement sent VMware's stock tumbling Monday by 8.41% or $7.38 a share, to close at $80.36 at the end of regular trading. It fell further, to $77.50, in after hours trading. The stock of Novell and Red Hat moved only slightly.

The hypervisor is available as a free download. Technical support, including upgrades, on servers with one or two CPUs costs $499 per year, per system, while support for a system with unlimited CPUs costs $999 per year, per system. (Read more)

More Linux news

Germans ramp up U.K. open source support November 13, 2007
British open source advocates will be boosted by the news that German support vendor Credativ is expanding its open source center (OSSC) to support all distributions of Linux in the U.K. (Read more)

Google offers $10 million for best Android mobile phone applications November 12, 2007
Google will give $10 million to the developers who build the best applications for Android, the open source platform Google designed for building mobile phones. (Read more)

Nigeria favors Mandriva over Microsoft once more November 9, 2007
LONDON - Microsoft may not have beaten French Linux vendor Mandriva in a large deal to supply Nigerian elementary schools with laptop computers and software after all. (Read more)

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Ron Paul is the new Linux? November 8, 2007
Linux freaks have a reputation for posting a bunch of crazy comments every time someone in the Media reports a problem with Linux, or posts something positive about a lock-in media format, or, of course, certain IT vendors.

Are Ron Paul commenters taking up the slack from the Linux users? (Read more)

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Don Marti is editor of LinuxWorld.com.

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