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Oracle, Open Source and Virtualization…

Due to other commitments, I only made it to 2 presentations today…
Executive Panel: Oracle and Open Source:
The session was a seeded question and answer session to highlight Oracles commitment to “Free” software downloads, Open Source and Open Standards. If you follow the subject areas, I guess you know the score. The standout points for me [...]

Posted 23 September 2008 † Tim... § Linux § Oracle ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

OpenWorld Unconference Session…

Update: I had to change the time slot…
I’ve signed up to do an Unconference session on Wednesday 10:00 in Overlook C. The session is called, “Virtualization: What is it and why should you care?”
It will be about 30 minutes presentation, then a discussion. It’s an overview session and not product-specific. Hopefully it will [...]

Posted 22 September 2008 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

Sun’s xVM is here…

Sun have announced their revolutionary new product xVM. It’s an open source Xen derivative that installs on bare-metal.
Wait a minute… That sounds remarkably like what Oracle did with Oracle VM, which was released about a year ago…
So now we have four big players wanting a share of the market:

VMware ESX (ESXi) Server - A proprietory, [...]

Posted 12 September 2008 † Tim... § Linux § Oracle § Random ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Enterprise virtualization just got cheaper…

Vmware ESXi is now free:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/vmware_esxi_free/
Cheers
Tim…

Posted 29 July 2008 † Tim... § Random ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

Desktop Virtualization Tools…

Some quick thoughts on the state of desktop virtualization tools…
Background
If you’ve been checking out my RAC articles, you’ll have probably noticed I’m a bit of a VMware fan. I originally used VMware Workstation, but switched to the free VMware Server when it was released in 2006. I don’t have much cause to complain about VMware [...]

Posted 05 July 2008 † Tim... § Random ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , ,