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eWeek: Oracle ‘Losing Patience’ with XenSource, VMware

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 1, 2006

“Oracle is fast losing its patience with both XenSource and
VMware over their reluctance to work together to help develop a
single interface that will integrate a variety of virtualization
solutions in the Linux kernel.

“‘We certainly believe in one simple universal way to integrate
a variety of virtualization solutions, and that is the way that
Andrew Morton [the maintainer of the stable Linux kernel] wants to
go,’ said Bob Shimp, the vice president of Oracle’s technology
business unit, on July 31…”

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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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