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Linux based Openstack will challenge VMware
Proprietary virtual machine system gets competition
Mon Jul 25 2011, 11:05
A CONSORTIUM of hardware and software vendors is starting its second year of developing the Linux based Openstack cloud operating system to take on the proprietary alternatives such as VMware.
Last week the Openstack group of 83 companies, which has been led by a collaboration between NASA and Rackspace, celebrated its first anniversary in London, and our sister IT news web site V3.co.uk was there. µ
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I'm already using KVM now on multiple distributions of GNU/Linux, and it's been very good so far. If this Openstack can do even better, then I welcome it, too.
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Hyper-V Server (not Windows) is free, http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v-server/
Also VMware is not based on Red Hat, never has been. The CoS had some RH lineage but that's a supervisory piece not the hypervisor. Anyway the latest 5.0 no longer has that bloatware and uses a very slim 32 MiB footprint,
Re previous comment 'Hyper-V is free' - last time I looked they weren't giving away Windows 2008 R2....
Let's not forget, before we go Linux bashing that VMWare is just that - it's RedHat based so without actually most folks realising it they are (heavily) using Linux. Also, without competition for this, where is the impetus for VMWare to keep improving their offering?
Challenge VMWare? How, when, in which decade?
This sounds like another 'everyone will use Linux' claim. And everyone isn't - UNIX market share is actually falling.
VMWare's closest competitor is Hyper-V, not Linux.
With a Linux distribution you have a massively increased number of security vulnerabilities compared to say a current Windows Server version.
This likely won't be anything other than a niche solution run by low margin, cheapskate Linux shops that cant afford to license an OS with business level support. Where you can already run the free version of ESXi or Hyper-V