Novell CTO defends 'unstable' Xen claims

www.zdnet.com.au ^ | 11 August 2006 10:15 AM | Steven Deare, ZDNet Australia

[Golden Eagle]

Initially a Windows software company, Novell turned to Linux-based software when it completed the acquisition of SUSE Linux in 2004.

So much for the honest reporting.

[Doohickey]

Novell: Where good software goes to die.

[Doohickey]

So, only 20% of Novell employees are actually productive.

[ShadowAce]

Have you tested out any other distros?

Yeah. Using VMware, I load them up frequently to see if I like them or not. So far, I still always come back to FC. I'm thinking it's because that's what I'm most familiar with.

I have a DVD image that I still need to burn that contains 10 live CD distros. Most of them are specialized for forensics, and a couple are GP distros for demos. It's pretty cool, but it's taking up 4G of my /home partition. :(

[Golden Eagle]

LOL, if that.

[N3WBI3]

Yup you just go ahead and keep running down American companies...

[ShadowAce]

He's got a playmate now.

[Golden Eagle]

Novell is switching their core product to a free foreign clone of American products. Which is why you suddenly like them.

[ShadowAce]

Novell's Enterprise Linux Server Takes 30% Of Server Market

It's just claims by Novell, with no independent numbers to back them up, but I think it interesting that they are comfortable making the claim in the first place.

[Doohickey]

Nah. I just like making fun of Novell. I can't think of any other company that has screwed up more superior products, or has had more difficulty defining itself.

Whatever curve there is in technology, you can rest assured that Novell is behind it.

[ShadowAce]

I just like making fun of Novell. I can't think of any other company that has screwed up more superior products, or has had more difficulty defining itself.

LOL! OK. I can understand that, actually. Novell has a rather, um, checkered past.

Thanks for the clarification!

[N3WBI3]

Which is why you suddenly like them.

Find me a post where I ever said I did not like Novell..

BTW nice way to avoid the fact Novell is an American company and you think its ok to run them down for using something which originated in Europe while you post on the web which.... originated in Europe..

[Golden Eagle]

The difference is I don't spend every waking moment boasting about foreign technology like yourself. I would love to go into the details of why this may be, but you always cry to the moderator about it being too personal.

[N3WBI3]

You were disrupting threads on the web (European invention) long before I was posing here... heck according to you you were posting via the web here before 'here' existed..

[Golden Eagle]

threads on the web (European invention)

LMAO!

[zeugma]

I'm pretty much with you on that. As of right now Xen isn't quite ready for prime-time yet. For dev and test machines, it might be appropriate, but I'd be hesitant to go with it in a production environment today. That may well change in the future, though like you, I'm a little leery of what seems to be more or less 'pseudo' virtualization.

For the present, VMware rocks in every test we've thrown at it. We'll be doing some major deployments of VMware here within months. It's going to save us a ton of money and time.