[Ma-linux] Cloud Computing

[Chris Rogers]

Here's the Novell press release:

http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-joins-microsoft-server-virtualization-validation-program

I remember seeing something similar from Redhat about 6 months ago, but 
can't find a thing on their website now.  That kind of illustrates my 
point.  There's a rumble of thunder in the area of interoperability, and 
then nothing.  As the Suse hypervisor is just Xen, Windows clients 
certainly SHOULD work and be supported.  Same with current Redhat.  Not 
sure about KVM.

It just seems odd to me (perhaps it shouldn't) that Microsoft likes to 
take these nice photo ops with the open source competition, and sign 
these wonderful agreements, but then everyone leaves town, and the 
tumbleweeds take over.  Is it just a case of "Here, we did it, we 
support it, it works, now shush."  Or is it really how I perceive it as 
just a photo op with no real support behind it?

This is likely wandering off topic, so I'll stop there before I really 
start ranting... :)

Chris

Kevin Chin wrote:
> 
>     The big thing that I want to see is the promised (supposedly)
>     interoperation with windows/suse/redhat hypervisors and VM's.  There
>     were big announcements followed by dead silence.
> 
> 
> Can you clarify what you mean or are looking for?  Perhaps I can share 
> the SUSE perspective.  What kinds of announcements were you thinking of?
> 
> --Kc
>