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John Blau 10 November, 2006 08:42 Comments Entrepreneurs attending a forum in Germany this week showed how they plan to use clever open-source products -- commercially -- to compete with proprietary software companies.

Citrix Systems staked its future on virtualization when it shelled out $500m to buy XenSource in August 2007.

Initially, it appeared that every successful open-source company would be swallowed up through acquisition.

Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Mode : An examination of why commercial companies gobble up open-source companies when ita s so hard to make money off open-source software.

"Microsoft and XenSource today announced they will cooperate on the development [.pdf] of technology to provide interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux and the new Microsoft Windows hypervisor technology-based Windows Server virtualization.

Get it while you can. Parallels has just released their latest version of their Mac Desktop emulator. The new version promises support for Windows 7 and compatibility with Snow Leopard. They’ve made a lot of performance enhancements as well. Read more at parallels.com. The real question is…how much longer will we [...]

So you’re a gambler. And although you like to consider all of the angles before laying odds on anything, you’ve come to trust the Apple franchise to such a degree that you’ve installed Snow Leopard without hesitation. What now. Will you still be able to 20 table pokerstars with pokertracker running on your virtualization solution? [...]

Yes, I wish I had a fancy new MacBook Pro (but isn’t an even fancier one right around the corner?).  Anyhow, I’ve cleared out my Black MacBook and there is tons of empty storage on it.  I had Parallels on my MacBook and VM Ware on my iMac, but find myself playing on my laptop [...]

The new VMware Labs shows off internal engineering projects; Xsigo certifies I/O Director for Citrix XenServer, and Zenoss monitors the Xen hypervisor.

The Oracle virtualization push will gain some steam with the release of Oracle VM 3, but large shops may not want to hand over any more of their infrastructure.

This week's VMware news roundup includes a Microsoft executive fanning the virtualization flames and a VMware acquisition and what it means for View.

VKernel offers a free capacity management tool for VMware virtual environments; and other news in brief.

IT pros welcome x86 processors' new memory management features for virtualized data centers, but the added complexity can cause problems.