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Is Microsoft a threat to VMware?

The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualisation leader VMware. Read more »

VMware dangles next-gen virtualisation goodies

VMware has some new ideas for tackling an age-old problem for system administrators: how do you keep a computing service available when the server it's running on fails? Read more »

Novell and Intel speed up virtualised Windows

Novell and Intel develop software that speeds Xen's ability to run Windows as a virtual machine. Read more »

Microsoft moves deeper into virtualisation

Microsoft on Monday in the United States updated its plans for new virtualisation software and said it will expand its lineup through an acquisition. Read more »

Microsoft hastens virtualisation support

Microsoft, faced with virtualisation competition and customer demands, is working to bring some technologies to market sooner than it earlier had said. Read more »

Microsoft finally goes to market with Hyper-V

Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualisation technology. Read more »

Windows Server 2008 test release due next week

Microsoft will release the first near-final version of its Windows Server 2008 operating system as early as next week. Read more »

Sun rises on xVM stategy

Sun Microsystems' xVM virtualisation efforts are getting louder and louder. Read more »

Xen passes Windows milestone

Start-up XenSource has succeeded in booting Microsoft Windows on top of Xen software, an important milestone in its effort to commercialise the virtual machine. Read more »

Intel feeds virtualisation's need for speed

With the first generation of Intel Virtualization Technology now being built into most of the chipmaker's products, Intel is turning its attention to improving its performance. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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