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Oracle Takes on VMware with Oracle VM 3.0

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 24, 2011

“The Oracle VM is based on the open source Xen hypervisor.
Oracle provides the VM for free and then charges enterprises for
support contracts. While Oracle is providing its own value adds on
top of Xen with the Oracle VM management layer, Hawley stressed
that Oracle is committed to Xen.

“We’re using the latest and greatest Xen hypervisor and we don’t
diverge that much from the mainline project,” Hawley said. “


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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