[ale] Xen

[Jim Popovitch]

Well now, it all depends on where you started, what it cost you, and
where you ended up. ;-)

-Jim P.

On 2009-06-23, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Asher Vilensky<ashervilensky at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> It's funny to me to read "Borland" and "smart" in the same sentence.  At
>> the
>> time, they brought an entire dev team from Russia to Atlanta - only to lay
>> everybody off a month or two later.  Saw it with my own two eyes.
>
> That sucks! It's bad enough getting laid off. Really bad getting
> relocated then laid off. But relocated to another freaking side of the
> globe and THEN laid off....
>
> That sucks big time.
>
> welcome to 'merica....
>>
>> -- Asher Vilensky
>>   ashervilensky at gmail.com
>>   Home: 404-377-8434
>>   Cell: 404 452 8642
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> If they’d been smart they’d have done what Borland did after they bought
>>> dBaseII way back when and already owned Paradox.  They’d just issue
>>> updates
>>> to both products so they were exactly alike.  Doing it this way just
>>> annoys
>>> your install base who say to themselves:  “If I’ve got to migrate why
>>> migrate to something these putzes make – might as well do something
>>> else.”
>>> Then again many vendors will create a “migration path” before dumping
>>> stuff.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Brian
>>> Pitts
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:28 AM
>>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
>>> Subject: Re: [ale] Xen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/23/2009 07:49 AM, Jeff Lightner wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> This thread was started by Jim posting old news about Oracle buying
>>> Virtual Iron. It turned out that within a month of buying them, Oracle
>>> fired
>>> almost everyone and discontinued the project. It seems like a rather
>>> expensive way to get more customers for your own product.
>>>
>>> I am pretty curious to see what happens in the Sun xVM v Oracle VM fight.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Brian Pitts
>>>
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