eWeek: Mandriva Shoots but Doesn’t Score

“With its Corporate Server 4, Mandriva is challenging the Linux
data center operating systems from Red Hat and Novell by offering
broader support for virtualization technologies. It’s a
solid-sounding plan, but eWeek Labs’ tests of CS 4 show that it’s
longer on ambition than execution.

“Mandriva’s CS 4 is unique in its support for three different
virtualization frameworks: Xen, OpenVZ and VMware. However, CS 4
not only fails to advance the state of these frameworks on Linux,
but, where Xen is concerned, CS 4 falls short of the
implementations now offered from Novell and Red Hat…”

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