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  • VMware and Xen clash over patch

    Things don’t always go smoothly when you try to mix the world of open source with the world of proprietary commercial software. Sometimes those worlds collide. Often, proprietary vendors are all too willing to ride roughshod over open source to further their own interests. And then again, sometimes it works the other way around.

  • ‘Flavour of the month’ Xen primed for mainstream

    Xen is flavour of the month in the tech world. Not only is the open-source technology supported in the new release of Novell’s Suse Enterprise Linux distribution, but Microsoft pledged to support Xen-virtualised Linux with its forthcoming Longhorn server virtualisation technology. And don’t forget about IBM.

  • VMware brings virtual machines to Mac OS X

    One of the bigger names in virtualisation — VMware — has been strangely silent on the subject of Macintosh support, but is silent no more — it has announced support for the Mac with a forthcoming beta release.

  • VMware vs Microsoft in virtualisation battle

    With the recruitment of IBM, Intel, AMD and CA, among others, to a community aimed at framing an industry standard for virtualisation, VMware is planning to have a powerful counter-attack for anything Microsoft can dream up as part of Vista.

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