This is true Wes. The beauty of open source is that proprietary as well as
open source products can be built around an open source project especially
one such as kvm, and marketed. The nature of open source caters to this.
The trend in the market for hypervisor appliances is probably going to be
the standard and I would like to believe that companies are already
considering linux/kvm appliances.
On 9/6/07, Wes Felter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Haydn Solomon wrote:
> > I've been seeing a lot of news about embedded virtualization in servers
> > backed by companies like Dell, HP etc. I still think KVM is the right
> > approach to virtualization however what does this mean for KVM as far as
> > being a competitor in the hypervisor market? How difficult would it be
> > for KVM to do something similar? Just wanted to get some thoughts on
> this.
>
> IBM, HP, Dell, etc. make marketing deals with companies, not open-source
> communities. So there needs to be a KVM company that can afford to send
> people to IBM, HP, Dell, etc. to sell the idea. And of course that
> company needs to have a product to sell, not a technology.
>
> Wes Felter - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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