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Microsoft Will Virtualise Linux

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Kintaro:
http://www.linux.org/news/2005/04/21/0009.html


--- Quote ---Microsoft plans to take a hard-charge at the burgeoning market for computer virtualization, including offering greater Linux compatibility, its chief executive said today.

Amid jokes about cooperating with rivals such as Sun Microsystems , Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company would make serious investments in, and open up, its Virtual Server 2005 product to run on non-Windows machines.
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Refalm:
Microsoft has already two open source projects running already, and they have some sort of cooperation with Sun Microsystems. And their .NET strategy is supposed to be all open (not fully, since it isn't open source).

So I guess this was coming. The question here is: who in his right mind would run an expensive Microsoft product on Linux?

Orethrius:

--- Quote from: Refalm ---The question here is: who in his right mind would run an expensive Microsoft product on Linux?
--- End quote ---

Someone who's convinced that Cron, Chkrootkit, and IPtables just aren't security enough.
Don't laugh, we'll hear no end about this kind of crap once new vulnerabilities are encountered in Winlinneo Product Server 2005 revision 5000.04.21.

Kintaro:
Well running an expensive Microsoft product on Linux could have its benefits. Such as being able to run the .NET framework properly. Unfortunatly Mono isn't fully developed yet and lacks a lot of features.

Calum:
this is better than a lot of microsoft plans, and i'll tell you why:

competition.

i still uphold the cathedral/bazaar model, but i also think that if microsoft and others are providing competing products that are cross platform, it will no longer be a case of "*ix + apache versus ms windows 2003 server", because now, you can choose your server's system, independently of the software running on it. This does drive development.

The down side is of course that microsoft knows they cannot win this battle (cathedral & bazaar model again) and so they will probably use their usual tactics of using a huge advertising/propaganda campaign to attempt to wipe out the competition using marketing rather than any real performance, security, stability or even price comparisons, and once they have done this they can set their own agenda regarding development schedules, bugfix releases and forced upgrades.

we shall see....

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