Who's buddying up closer with Microsoft: Novell or Red Hat?
I know for a fact that either Novell or Red Hat, or perhaps both, will be announcing next week that they'll be shifting their server virtualization offerings from Xen to XenServer. What I don't know is what, if anything, either one of them may be doing beyond that to further their virtualization partnerships with Microsoft.
One or the other, however, is going to make a major move. This has been building for some time. Novell, of course, has long had a partnership with Microsoft.
On the other hand, Red Hat has just partnered, for the first time ever, with Microsoft to co-ordinate their virtualization efforts.
What pushing all this activity along is Citrix making XenServer free as it moves from pure virtualization into virtualization management, and a renewal of its buddy-buddy relationship with Microsoft. What all this has to do with Red Hat and/or Novell in particular is that all four companies want a bigger part of the enterprise virtualization pie, and that means ganging up on VMware.
The reason this is being announced next week-thanks to sources I already have some of the news-is because VMware is having its big VMware Europe show at the same time. There is no coincidence.
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