Red Hat suddenly changed its mind: Xen is not stable enough
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
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Quoting from ZDNet:
"[Xen] is not stable yet, it's not ready for the enterprise," Red Hat's vice president of International Operations, Alex Pinchev, told ZDNet Australia today via telephone. "We don't feel that [Xen] is stable enough to address banking, telco, or any other enterprise customer, so until we are comfortable, we will not release it." ... Red Hat has spent "millions" of dollars testing Xen, according to Pinchev, and has hundreds of customers around the world trying out beta versions of the software...Read the whole article at source. Barely 4 months ago Red Hat spent big time announcing the launch of its Integrated Virtualization strategy which would include integration of Xen in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and a series of services and tools around it. Now, suddenly, the company changed its mind. Why? Possibly because:
- Novell launched SUSE Linux 10 integrating Xen 3.0 much earlier than Red Hat
- Microsoft signed an agreement with XenSource for interoperability with upcoming Windows Server Virtualization
- VMware could decide to directly support Xen virtual machines since there are few hopes to reach a common agreement on hypervisor standardization
5 Comments
Anonymous
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:51:00 PM
Or maybe they are right.
alessandro
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:28:00 PM
Possibly.
But sincerely I can hardly believe a company like Red Hat decides to announce a thing like a "Integrated Virtualization" strategy just to discover 4 months after that they were wrong.
Am I overestimating Red Hat analysts and underestimating chance?
But sincerely I can hardly believe a company like Red Hat decides to announce a thing like a "Integrated Virtualization" strategy just to discover 4 months after that they were wrong.
Am I overestimating Red Hat analysts and underestimating chance?
are you sure you're not misinterpreting the Redhat statement? They never intended to release Xen before RHEL 5. And this statement says they're *still* intending on including it in RHEL 5.
So nothing has changed, schedule-wise, in terms of Xen's readiness influencing Redhat's Xen involvement.
They're simply saying it's "not ready *now*," something they've said for over two years.
So nothing has changed, schedule-wise, in terms of Xen's readiness influencing Redhat's Xen involvement.
They're simply saying it's "not ready *now*," something they've said for over two years.
alessandro
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:13:00 PM
Again my answer is: possibly.
Maybe I misinterpreted the statement but I have 3 elements here:
1) Red Hat previously announced they would release Xen with RHEL 5.0
2) Virtualization Industry Roadmap tells me RHEL 5.0 is expected by the end of the year.
3) Alex Pinchev said Red Hat won't release Xen with OS until they are confomrtable with.
So, following your interpretation (if I understood well), Red Hat says it doesn't think Xen is ready to go *now*, but they believe it will be ready to go *within 6 months*.
Maybe I misinterpreted the statement but I have 3 elements here:
1) Red Hat previously announced they would release Xen with RHEL 5.0
2) Virtualization Industry Roadmap tells me RHEL 5.0 is expected by the end of the year.
3) Alex Pinchev said Red Hat won't release Xen with OS until they are confomrtable with.
So, following your interpretation (if I understood well), Red Hat says it doesn't think Xen is ready to go *now*, but they believe it will be ready to go *within 6 months*.
Yes, RHEL 5 will be launched in December.
Coincidentally, that is when Redhat claims Xen will be "ready."
(from the article you linked to :)
Red Hat will attempt to build a full virtualisation platform around the product in the next version of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux server software, due to be released in December.
The main problem isn't misinterpretation, but the fact that the ZDnet article made an article out of a non-event.
Coincidentally, that is when Redhat claims Xen will be "ready."
(from the article you linked to :)
Red Hat will attempt to build a full virtualisation platform around the product in the next version of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux server software, due to be released in December.
The main problem isn't misinterpretation, but the fact that the ZDnet article made an article out of a non-event.
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