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ZDNet UK: Intel Bets on Open Source Future

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“At the beginning of this year Intel decided to get behind an
open-source project called Xen, the end result of which is to
develop a virtualisation engine — or hypervisor —
designed to allow multiple operating systems to run on a single
server. The project came along at the perfect time for Intel–the
chipmaker is building Virtualization Technology (VT) into chips
beginning this year, but Windows won’t support the feature for two
or three years.

“Participants in the Xen project–also backed by Sun, HP,
Novell, Red Hat, AMD, Voltaire and others–claim Intel’s
contribution has been substantial…”

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