[ale] Xen

[Jeff Lightner]

Right but it goes on to say they're folding it into their own Oracle VM
and that both were based on Xen.

 

Since I never heard of Virtual Iron before I can't say much about it.
If it was Open Source then they can only quit supporting it themselves
without killing it.   However, I wonder if the reason it is being killed
isn't because no one ever heard of it and it had an uphill battle
against VMWare, Xen and other options.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Pitts
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 5:24 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Xen

 

On 06/22/2009 09:05 AM, Jeff Lightner wrote: 

Since Fedora/Redhat are providing Xen standard with their distributions
I doubt Oracle will kill this any time soon.
  

Oracle has already killed Virtual Iron.

"In a letter to Virtual Iron's sales partners, Oracle says it "will
suspend development of existing Virtual Iron products and will suspend
delivery of orders to new customers." And in a second letter to a
partner speaking with The Reg, the company says it will not allow
partners to sell new licenses to anyone - including existing customers -
after the end of this month (i.e. in 11 days)."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/19/oracle_kills_virtual_iron/
 
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