Virtual Server 2005 R2:
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:58 am
REDMOND PARTNER UPDATE
By Lee Pender
Senior Editor, Redmond Channel Partner
MICROSOFT ON THE ATTACK IN VIRTUALIZATION
Look out, VMware. Microsoft is making very real moves in the
virtualization market.
Microsoft has made Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 (R2)
Enterprise Edition available as a no-charge download. It also
released plug-ins to let customers run leading Linux
distributions on Virtual Server 2005, including Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 and Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
Microsoft -- in what has all the earmarks of an old-school,
one-up move -- made its Virtual Server announcement on the same
day that VMware announced the free, public availability of its
Open Virtual Machine Disk Format (OVMDK). VMware had made its
own VMware Server free back in February.
VMware officials played down the Microsoft move, saying that a
lot of partners and customers were already getting Virtual
Server for free from MSDN and other Microsoft programs. They
also said that VMware's embracing of ubiquitous standards and
the cross-platform nature of its products would be competitive
advantages over Microsoft. That may be true, as VMware is the
runaway market leader in virtualization. But, even runaway
leaders shake in their boots when they hear Microsoft make
noise in their markets. Get ready for a heated battle.
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