LinuxPlanet: Linux Vendors Try To Beat Microsoft To Widespread Virtualization

“With Microsoft trying to ramp up its Windows Virtual Server for
release next year, Red Hat, Novell, Xandros, and other Linux
vendors are pulling out the stops toward virtualization in hopes
that Linux might start to beat Windows as the base operating system
of choice among enterprises and small businesses.

“Also talking up plans and activities around Linux server
virtualization are relative newcomers such as Transitive, Inc. and
Virtual Iron Software, Inc.

“During a a press conference at the recent C3 Expo in New York,
Transitive rolled out the initial steps in a new initiative to
migrate Solaris/SPARC applications from the Solaris 2.6 era onward
to Linux, without source code or binary changes…”

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