Parallels Summit - Birger Steen
Parallels' CEO discusses event attendance, Parallels' strategy, partners and a competitive overview.
Parallels' CEO discusses event attendance, Parallels' strategy, partners and a competitive overview.
Microsoft, however, is more than likely going to do something foolish like make some individuals pay for each and every operating system used or place some artificial limits on workloads based upon version of the operating system an individual has selected. As in the past, Microsoft would then be propelling those needing technology as a way to move forward to other host operating environments such as Linux.
While at Citrix's mega analyst event a while back, I saw a fantastic demonstration of both HA and fault tolerant configurations using Marathon Technologies' everRun combined with Citrix's XenServer. Well, the folks at Marathon are doing it again, this time with Microsoft and Hyper-V. What Marathon has accomplished is shear industrial sorcery.
Microsoft and Red Hat have come to an agreement allowing virtualization technology from each company to support virtual machines containing the others operating environment. My colleagues Mary-Jo Folley (see Microsoft and Red Hat sign virtualization pact) and Paula Rooney (see It’s true: Microsoft and Red Hat cooperate on virtualization) have both comment on this move.
The current buzz is that Microsoft's Windows 2008 Server R2 will be the last version of the operating system that will support Intel's Itanium. My colleague Mary Jo Foley posted Microsoft pulls the plug on future Itanium support on April 5th on this very topic.
There are many ways to look at markets and individual companies. Each is useful to certain people at certain times and not very useful at all at other times.
I've been invited to attend Microsoft's Management Summit 2008 (MMS) in the city of Lost Wages, NV. I will be heading out on Monday and will be at the event throughout the week.
Many of Citrix's friends have been making announcements at Citrix's big party, Citrix Synergy. I've heard from appSense, Scalent Systems, and VMlogix about what they're doing with Citrix XenServer or Xen Desktop.
In my post Citrix Acquires XenSource for $500 million, I questioned whether two dissimilar corporate cultures could be integrated successfully. There are many examples of failed attempts in this department.
As I mentioned in the post, Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing, a number of companies contacted me in the hopes of presenting their view of Microsoft's Hyper-V announcement. This is Sun's response.