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VMware Sees the Open Source Threat

At VMworld this week in Las Vegas, troubled virtualization company VMware has been tipping its hat on where it stands with regard to threats from open source virtualization and other proprietary players. As we've written before, open source virtualization and virtualization found for free under the hood in operating systems represent serious problems for VMware's proprietary business model.? New CEO Paul Maritz has confirmed this week that the company has considered open sourcing its hypervisor, and there is more.


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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Neuros has taken another stab at the open-source set-top box market.....

Microsoft continued to make its case this week that it is a friend to open source.....

Mozilla in hot water over use of EULA in Canonical Ubuntu Linux.....

Open source virtual classroom software released in Africa.....



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Free Isn't Enough

This post by Dan Kusnetzky highlights one of the things that open source and free software projects have to contend with: Free isn't enough to carry the day.

A key challenge faced by any open source project is getting mindshare. It?s a truism that if decision makers don?t know about a product, they won?t consider it. If they don?t consider it, they?ll select other approaches. There are too many people shouting out their own Xen messages.



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Would a VMware Acquisition of Red Hat Go Anywhere?

Is there any chance that virtualization giant VMware might have its eyes on Red Hat as an acquisition? This article reports that VMware CEO Diane Greene, ousted by her board in July, had set up meetings with Red Hat in part to position VMware as friendly to open source and possibly as a prelude to a buyout discussion, according to a person familiar with the conversations. While both companies have declined to comment, the prospect could make a lot of sense for VMware for several reasons. Here's why.


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VMware Joins The Linux Foundation

Virtualization vendor VMware is the latest company to join The Linux Foundation, a national organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. While there are several software vendors in the consortium, VMware is the first to focus solely on virtualization and cloud computing.



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Open Source and the Fall of VMware


The Net is abuzz today with the news of VMware's president and CEO Diane Greene leaving which has also caused a huge plunge in VMware's stock. Our sister site has a good story on the possible reasons, which may be attributable to politics within the company. VMware, of course, built a huge market capitalization on the back of its virtualization technology. As ZDNet has suggested, I think the problems at VMware may have to do with increased competition from open source virtualization offerings--and also from operating systems, especially Windows.


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Citrix CTO Simon Crosby on Virtualization

Lately, we've written quite a bit about virtualization, including Red Hat's entry into the race, and virtual data center strategies.? Today, on our sister site GigaOm, Stacey Higginbotham has an interview with Citrix CTO Simon Crosby. Crosby was the former CTO of open source virtualization company XenSource (which Citrix acquired). He discusses Xen, Microsoft, VMware, cloud computing, and more. Check it out.


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Microsoft Delivers Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtualization (RTM)

There's no stopping the virtualization race. Microsoft has just released to manufacturing WIndows Server 2008 Hyper-V. The Release Candidate of its? virtualization application is found here.? Hyper-V is hypervisor-based virtualization software that allows you to run multiple operating systems concurrently, including Linux, on one installation of Windows Server.


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Structure 08: VMWare's Co-Founder, Amazon's CTO, Sun's CTO

We've written a lot about virtualization lately, including Red Hat entering the race, and good tools you can use to run Linux with other operating systems. Today, our sister blog GigaOm is hosting a very special event on cloud computing: Structure 08. OStatic will be posting interviews and news out of the conference all day. To begin with, if you're interested in virtualization, check out this interview with Mendel Rosenblum, VMWare's co-founder. You may also enjoy hearing from Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on how companies with no server infrastructure can do very compute-intensive things, and how Sun's CTO sees SaaS developing.


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Opinion: Shakeups Ahead for Yahoo!, EMC and Hadoop

By Raj Bala

Trends in data storage and server computing are changing rapidly, and there are some unexpected shakeups to come, with open source implications. Hardware continues to get cheaper. Bandwidth isn?t quite free yet, but it?s hardly expensive. High-quality open source software now abounds in enterprise data centers, but grid computing solutions remain half-baked and hardly commoditized.

These trends are all behind why I think Yahoo! and EMC are set for a future technology collision, given their respective philosophies--and open source is too.



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