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03.15.07

New Virtualisation Pact: Novell and SWsoft

Posted in Boycott Novell, Novell, Deals, Servers, Virtualization at 6:34 am by Roy Schestowitz

Shortly after Novell’s secret acquisition of a virtualisation company (gone public just days ago), Novell forms a pact with another virtualisation company.

SWsoft, seller of the Virtuozzo virtualization software, has begun a partnership to bundle its product with Novell’s Suse Linux operating system, the companies plan to announce Thursday.

Red Hat’s new Enterprise Linux (released yesterday) boasts multiple virtualisation technologies, including Xen from XenSource, with whom Microsoft and Novell collaborate.

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