Interesting

[Tom Buskey]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Kenny Lussier <klussier at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> > While working on my paper about Linux and "Cloud Computing" (and thanks
> > to all the people who sent me input), I went to the VirtualBox site:
> >
> > http://www.virtualbox.org/
>
> Oracle has acquired a few virtualization products as of late. They
> bought Virtual Iron last year (and promptly shut them down), they
> acquired VirtualBox through Sun, and they bought a smaller
> virtualization company two years ago that they are using as the base
> of their VM product. They also tried buying VMWare out from under EMC.
>

Oracle/Sun has several types of Virtualization.  Xen (they call it xVM),
VirtualBox, Zones (like BSD jails), LDOMS (more like Mainframes running
multiple instances on hardware divided CPUs) and simple resource
management.  I don't think anyone else has that breadth of virtualization.


> Oracle and EMC have been amassing a lot of technologies outside of
> their realm the last few years. Makes me wonder if we are seeing the
> same consolidation in the tech world that the telco and ISP worlds
> have been seeing.
>
>
And Cisco started selling server hardware.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/attachments/20100308/3b4bf117/attachment.html