09.05.08
Novell’s Zen (or Xen)
Some months back, Red Hat moved closer to KVM, just like Canonical did a about a year ago. Red Hat has even just bought KVM , having seen how Microsoft had stolen Xen from the community, forcing it to look elsewhere in due time. Who or what is left for Xen? Quite a few parties with existing commitments, a chief of which might be Novell, which is not surprising.
Microsoft and Citrix share Xen with Novell and Novell’s public relations blog has more to say.
Novell is a big contributor to the Xen project and will be including Xen updates in all future versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise. Novell continues to be the first Linux vendor to ship the latest releases of Xen, most recently with Xen 3.2 in SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2.
Xen will have some Microsoft-related announcements in the near future, according to Crosby. There could be more Hyper-V unification or collaboration. It is hopefully obvious what’s happening here. █
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.
landofbind said,
September 6, 2008 at 8:46 pm
So Novell is putting it’s neck on the noose, why do you care? Isn’t that what you want? The end of Novell?
Your word games with Novell’s name are childish: NoValue!? What are you? A kid of ten?
Note: comment has been flagged for arriving from an incarnation of a known (eet), pseudonymous, forever-nymshifting, abusive Internet troll that posts from open proxies and relays around the world.
Roy Schestowitz said,
September 6, 2008 at 9:05 pm
It wasn’t made up by me. Someone mailed me that image.