What does the future hold for Sun xVM Server?
Without a clear understanding of where things are headed with the Oracle acquisition, how many people are going to place their bets on this hypervisor technology?
Follow @infoworldMany have been waiting for the release of yet another free and open source hypervisor technology to come to market. Sun Microsystems has been working toward bringing xVM Server to market, but with the recent acquisition news by Oracle, questions around the future of Sun xVM Server quickly surfaced.
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Over at Sun's corporate blog, Steve Wilson, VP of xVM and connected systems at Sun, said things have been very busy since the company announced the xVM portfolio last September during VMworld 2008. The company has released numerous versions of VirtualBox, and it updated its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution to a 3.0 release. But people have been asking about the server virtualization platform, xVM Server. What's happening with it, and where does it stand?
Wilson writes that in October the company amped up its Early Access program with xVM Server EA2, then opened it up further with EA3 adding even more user testing to the mix. However, with that product feedback, the company learned that some product issues needed to be addressed, causing Sun to rethink part of its strategy. Issues such as:
