p2pnet - rss feed: Microsoft backs Linux
p2p news / p2pnet: Bill and the Boyz say they’ll provide Linux support on the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.
As well, Microsoft has made MVS 2005 R2 free.
Or as Forbes puts it, "Microsoft is to give Linux’ penguin mascot a plank across the ice," going on,
"The plug-ins will allow users to run leading Linux distributions on Virtual Server 2005, including Red Enterprise Linux 4 and Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
"A symbolic gesture from both a technology and support perspective: Zane Adam, director of product marketing in the Windows Server division at Bill Gates’ Microsoft explained that the move would ‘help customers safely consolidate their Linux-based applications on Virtual Server’."
Also See:
Forbes - Gates’ Microsoft Will Provide Support For Linux, April 4, 2006
April 5th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
I’m surprised people actually use MVS anyways, its all about VMWare.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:18 am
The very idea of running my linux distros on a microshaft server is and anathema of the highest order. People run linux so as not to be bothered by spammers, whammers, hyprocrites, phishers, bushies, croooks, spies, virus benders, invaders, logic bommers, putrid picture purveyors, and other nattering nabobs of negativism. To hell with all microshaft products and all their ‘EULAs’, copywrongs, patents, trademarks, licenses, agree to be bound by…….WHATEVER! I might run a microshaft sys before XP as a ‘guest oper sys’ under VM-Ware, but NEVER will I run any product where microshaft is the ‘master’ operating system. By the way, all this hassle over ‘mp3’s for mooosic has made me and my whole family hate music. More than ever now music is the work of the devil. All their music should be burned as an insult to GOD. Only by burning all copyrighted, patented, trademarked or ‘licensed’ music in large public bonfires like they used to have in Germany in the 1930’s will cleansing of this scum from among us take place. We should have burning music festivals all over the country and dance around the fires waving flags and singing the Marseillaise.