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.
Backing off earlier plans, company says customers will be able to buy the virtualisation technology without committing to Windows Server.
Microsoft will release the first near-final version of its Windows Server 2008 operating system as early as next week.
The virtualisation specialists are fighting back. Companies like VMware, and more recently XenSource, got their start with standalone virtualisation software -- but Linux sellers and Microsoft, unwilling to cede their influential position selling the foundational software of a computer, are trying to make virtualisation a feature of the operating system.
Citrix has made an unexpected move into the virtualisation market with its intended US$500 million acquisition of XenSource.
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