More Jabs Lobbed in Xen Tit for Tat
Red Hat chief technology Officer Brian Stevens escalated the debate over whether the open-source Xen virtualization technology is ready for prime time Aug. 16, saying Novell was being irresponsible and potentially damaging enterprises' first experiences with Xen.
The Xen technology lets users run multiple operating systems as guest virtual machines on the same hardware, allowing for better resource utilization. Virtualization has become a hot topic for enterprise customers because they get more computing power out of existing resources.
Novell has baked Xen into its SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) 10 product, which shipped last month, while Red Hat is including it in its upcoming RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 5 release, which is slated to ship late this year or in early 2007.
"What makes us most nervous is putting a bad taste in someone's mouth around the Xen technology, which we think is business-transforming. We should not screw this thing up and put a cloud around Xen," Stevens told eWeek in an interview at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here.
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