XenEnterprise says Peekaboo
Posted by Fraser Campbell Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:18:00 GMT
From Red Hat, Novell Spar Over Xen’s Readiness:
Red Hat executives said the Xen code in the Raleigh, N.C., Linux distributor’s upcoming RHEL 5 works, but they won’t advise enterprise customers and ISVs to deploy it until unfinished business around the API set, interoperability interfaces and Xen’s integration with the Linux kernel are resolved.
An interesting perspective but it still smacks of we’re not ready so Xen isn’t ready. Nothing has stopped Red Hat in the past from patching kernel functionality in that they thought their customers wanted.
Also, from the same article:
At LinuxWorld, XenSource and Virtual Iron said they plan to ship their respective XenEnterprise and Virtual Iron platforms in the next few weeks. They indicated that Xen is ready.Cnet’s news.com has this quote regarding XenEnterprise from XenSource:
“It’s going to be generally available next week,” Levine said in a speech here at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. The major goal of the software is to make the Xen open-source virtualization software easy to use, an idea reflected in the company’s “10 minutes to Xen” tagline.
Very interesting, generally available means not-BETA in my book. See original article XenSource’s first product due next week for more details.
