According to eWEEK, Novell is also busy creating a stand alone hypervisor to enter the XenServer, Hyper-V and ESX(i) battle. It will be Xen based and in my opinion a smart move considering they bought Platespin and already have a management tool called Orchestrator. It’s a shame they are a few years late, they should have bought Xenserver when they had the chance… or even Virtual Iron. Anyway we will just have to wait and see,
Novell Chief Technology Officer Jeff Jaffe hinted at a stand-alone hypervisor product during his keynote address at the BrainShare conference in March, saying one of Novell’s goals was to make SLES 11 available as an appliance that would be supported by a new tool set designed to quickly build specialized images.