Who created the modern world today? Many people would say that the great scientists, engineers, they use their hands to us to draw a better life now. From the perspective of implementation, scientists and engineers have invented and created a product to modify our lives, they are great. But many of us ignore their credit, is what we demand is the driving force behind those who invent and create. In the IT industry a lot of incredible collaboration that occurred, the largest strength comes from our users. We need the two companies could cooperate in the original confrontation, the result of such cooperation arises, Novell and Microsoft is an example.
March 12 this year, Novell and Microsoft to disclose more details of technical cooperation, which refers to the virtualization, directory management, identity authentication and document format products such as joint development program. Microsoft and Novell said that the cooperation program will be focused on Linux and Windows servers for developing a virtualization package, in order to achieve both the operating system virtualization support each other. In addition, the two companies also committed to developing a set of standards-based approach to achieve their Windows and SuSE on the physical and virtual server environment, integrated management.
The server market over the past year the main focus is virtualization technology, VMware companies accounted for the majority of x86 virtualisation share. In this context, Microsoft and Novell collaboration choice is to expand its virtualization market, but Novell can also take the opportunity to screw up, can be said that what they want. Can imagine, through this partnership, Microsoft and Novell virtualization hope some progress achieved in the field, so that Microsoft products and Linux virtualization with Xen obtained following the progress in market share, to challenge the authority of the current status of VMware.
Nearly four months after the July 3, 2007, the global virtualization technology conference held at the Capital Theater. SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 has grown up, but this does not affect the virtualization technology continues to be the protagonist of 2007, Novell publicity. BMW Group, Sumitomo Electric, and a large number of Chinese government enterprises and institutions settled, AMD, DELL, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel and many other international partners to work together to add much color to the conference, while giving Novell has unlimited future expectations.
In SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 in the integrated Xen virtualization technology, enabling Windows Linux products to face more competitive. Intel's server product marketing manager of China Zhao Meng in the keynote speech for all his calculations: the current utilization rate of 85% of the server resources are wasted. Use virtualization to reduce hardware costs about 50%, 70% of software costs, overall costs can be reduced 29-64%. "36 single-core servers can be fused into six dual-core or two quad-core server platform." Cost control is fairly obvious. The AMD partners from the statistical data are very optimistic, "the current single-core to multi-core server than the migration of up to 17:1."
While Microsoft's Windows still in the absolute supremacy, but the rise of Linux has significant horizon. "Unix will also be phased out, more and more demand from Linux, the future compatibility of the two systems will be increasingly important." Novell East Asia president Dr. Zhang Xianmin explain why in cooperation with Microsoft to talk about: " users spoke up, and not interested in your pains and sorrows, we need the two compatible. Novell and Microsoft are competing rather than co-operation before, but the trend of the times, for the customer, must sit down and cooperate. "
From the words of Mr. Zhang, we can very clearly feel the need to comply with IT technology trends "Customer is God" Golden Rule, the user is the diversification of the operating system into the integration. The future is only one operating system, Linux and Windows, what combination will produce a new operating system do? From now looks still a big question mark, exclamation point in the future will still look into a user's decision.