Microsoft has started selling Hyper-V, the second major component of their 2008 wave of applications. The release came six weeks earlier than originally expected which seems to be a good sign from the company that they are confident in the quality of the product.
If you read the articles you’d think that VMware is quaking in their boots over this one, but there are enough limitations in the Hyper-V platform that VMware, Citrix (Xen) and the other players have some time before they need to really be worried about the Microsoft foray. Interestingly, I was at another session with Microsoft earlier this week and there were some rather revealing comments about virtualization and hypervisors and the future trends of the product space; hopefully I’ll get my notes together on that later today or tomorrow.
In the mean time, go grab a copy of Hyper-V and give it a test run. Once you have your 2008 server installed, of course.
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