Ruphus13 writes with some more news for people foretelling the death of VMware. Sun has open sourced their xVM server, their bare-metal hypervisor virtualization solution. What used to once be the cash cow for VMware is now coming under increased threat, and Sun is once again turning to the Open Source state as a weapon. "Sun xVM Server is an outgrowth of the Xen project — which raises the quiz of why a company would go with Sun's version rather than the Xen one. Apart from its support for SPARC and Solaris (as well as other chips and overhead expenses systems), Sun is also superstructure a relief and sales guild around a saves money special offers on web orderswww.flashdesignnproducts.co.uk
east coast lawyersexperienced people version of xVM server... If you want to kick the tires or cut your costs, you can hop over to xVMServer.org, compute the source (GPL 3) and join the community. But Sun is betting that, as deployments move from an initial testing phase to active usage, large organizations will be willing to pay for guaranteed support (starting at $500 per year per sensual server)."

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