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Re: [Ma-linux] Cloud Computing

Subject: Re: [Ma-linux] Cloud Computing
From: Chris Rogers
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:03:46 -0400
Here's the Novell press release:

http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-joins-microsoft-server-virtualization-validation-program

I remember seeing something similar from Redhat about 6 months ago, but can't find a thing on their website now. That kind of illustrates my point. There's a rumble of thunder in the area of interoperability, and then nothing. As the Suse hypervisor is just Xen, Windows clients certainly SHOULD work and be supported. Same with current Redhat. Not sure about KVM.

It just seems odd to me (perhaps it shouldn't) that Microsoft likes to take these nice photo ops with the open source competition, and sign these wonderful agreements, but then everyone leaves town, and the tumbleweeds take over. Is it just a case of "Here, we did it, we support it, it works, now shush." Or is it really how I perceive it as just a photo op with no real support behind it?

This is likely wandering off topic, so I'll stop there before I really start ranting... :)

Chris

Kevin Chin wrote:

    The big thing that I want to see is the promised (supposedly)
    interoperation with windows/suse/redhat hypervisors and VM's.  There
    were big announcements followed by dead silence.


Can you clarify what you mean or are looking for? Perhaps I can share the SUSE perspective. What kinds of announcements were you thinking of?

--Kc

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