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From: Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy (grisha_at_ispol.com)
Date: Fri 24 Jun 2005 - 02:50:07 BST


On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Mike Tierney wrote:

> As much as I like Vservers (we use them on 2 of our Production
> servers!!) it looks like the Xen project (open source virtual machine
> software) IS getting LOTS of media coverage and attention/resources from
> vendors (Novell, IBM, Sun, HP, Redhat, etc).

This is called PR. If you read this, you'll have a better idea of what's
going on here:

http://www.pycon.org/data/95/pycon-20050325-1-0900-95-ike.mp3

Xen was funded by commercial research money (from Microsoft and Intel
IIRC) with the intent of turning it into a commercial venture, which is
what Xensource is. All this "buzz" is to a large degree artificially
generated to support the venture.

> Apparently the current version (v2) isn't that great but the next
> version (due out in August) sounds like a huge leap forward.

And longhorn will just totally kick ass, so I heard! :-)

Grisha
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