June 02, 2006, 09:35
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 due in July... Others learning to compete
The main emphasis is on Xen virtualization support. There's a reason why VMWare and Microsoft have released "free" versions of their competing products*.
The landscape and respect for FOSS has changed such that a few years ago, competing companies would not perform such moves. Instead they would die a slow death and lose market share.
* Note also that the competing products are by in large built on full hardware virtualization. They are slower technologies. End-User-Licenses of VMWare products even explicitly disallow you from publishing any benchmark results.
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