Red Hat Pits Itself
Against VMware
By Maureen O'Gara
Watching VMware stock and
its market cap spike
since it IPO'd must have
had Red Hat positively
pea green with
envyWatching VMware stock
and its market cap spike
since it IPO'd must have
had Red Hat positively
pea green with envy - so
green in fact that it's
gonna try taking VMware
on by pushing the Xen
virtualization integrated
in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL). Red Hat's
new goal is to underpin
50% of the world's
servers by 2015. And
since virtualization is
projected to take over
the world by then that's
a lot of Xen
virtualization - and
there's no extra cost in
it like there is with
VMware since it's bundled
with RHEL. (Red Hat's
telling people they'll
save $20,000-$30,000 a
server.) Red Hat claims
it's got its first 18,000
virtualized servers -
although it's a little
fuzzy about whether those
18,000 are actually in
production - anyway, it's
confident they'll get
there eventually after
all the testing and
evaluating is done.
Nov. 9, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 14,077 Replies: 1