Once upon a time, Xen was the hot virtualization story. The Xen developers had a working solution for Linux - using free software - well ahead of anybody else, and Xen looked like the future of virtualization on Linux. Much venture capital chased after that story, and distributors raced to be the first to offer Xen-based virtualization. But, along the way, Xen seemed to get lost.
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Red Hat to Let Xen Drop After Microsoft Hijacked It
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Following Microsoft's hijack of the main virtualisation options, Red Hat turns its back on Xen
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How Microsoft ‘Bought’ Xen to Remove/Reduce Choice (Is Novell Next?)
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Analysis of virtualisation news from Citrix, Novell, and Red Hat
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Open Source Enterprise Applications/Service Alternatives
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A pretty popular topic these days with the current economic state is cutting operations/software licensing costs. Here’s a list of open source applications that are enterprise worthy:
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Xen is (Almost) Microsoft
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Xen seems to be moving further and further in Microsoft's direction, unsurprisingly.
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How Microsoft Uses Novell to Fight GNU/Linux, Xen to Fight VMWare and GNU/Linux
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Techtarget.com may be delivering this news a little too late, but it incorporates some quotes which the publisher sought from Red Hat, Xandros, Novell and some so-called ‘analyst’.
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Red Hat takes Xen approach with latest OS
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Red Hat has rolled out a beta-test of the next version of its flagship OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2, with a new kernel and significant changes aimed at server farms and at workstations.
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Installing Xen On An Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) server system (i386). You can find all the software used here in the Ubuntu repositories, so no external files or compilation are needed.
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West Australian Councils Go Virtual With Linux, Xen
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Three local government shires in Western Australia have adopted the open source Xen virtualization technology to virtualize Windows servers on Linux hosts and reduce its need for physical machines.
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Microsoft and Xen and Patent Leadership
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Sam Ramji gave an excellent short talk at OSCON 2007 on Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and on the Wire. Sam described the collaborative work being done inside the Microsoft open source labs to better enable virtualization with the Xen world.
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Desperately Seeking Xen
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What's going on with Xen, the open source hypervisor that was supposed to give VMware a run for its money? I can't remember how many IT trade press articles, blog posts and vendor white papers I've read about Xen in the last few years. If I had a dollar for every piece ever published about Xen, I'd be... well, not quite as rich as the Google kids, but still very well off.
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