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On 06/23/2009 07:49 AM, Jeff Lightner wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Right but it
goes on to say they’re
folding it into their own Oracle VM and that both were based on Xen.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Since I
never heard of Virtual Iron before
I can’t say much about it. If it was Open Source then they can only
quit
supporting it themselves without killing it. However, I wonder if the
reason
it is being killed isn’t because no one ever heard of it and it had an
uphill battle against VMWare, Xen and other options.</span></font><br>
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<font color="navy"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><br>
</font></font></font>This thread was started by Jim posting old news
about Oracle buying Virtual Iron. It turned out that within a month of
buying them, Oracle fired almost everyone and discontinued the project.
It seems like a rather expensive way to get more customers for your own
product.<br>
<br>
I am pretty curious to see what happens in the Sun xVM v Oracle VM
fight.<br>
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All the best,<br>
Brian Pitts<br>
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