據稱Oracle正在和Citrix談判收購事宜。看上去這個傳聞是靠譜的，OracleVM和Sun xVM都是Xen技術，但是RH轉向KVM，Xen則由Citrix控制。現在還很難預測Oracle今后會選擇什么樣子的虛擬化技術，但是使用虛擬化 技術是一個不爭的事實。這樣活著面臨被RH控制，或者自己控制局面。猜想像Oracle這樣的大公司還是會選擇后者。當年Citrix花費500M收購 XenSource，現在市值是7.7B，不知道Oracle能否搞定。Oracle的目標就是IBM了！
在IT系統中，軟件的重要性將大大超越硬件。

That Oracle would be interested in buying Citrix is totally plausible. Oracle has its own implementation of the open source Xen hypervisor, which was based largely on the work done by Red Hat as it commercialized Xen in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. When it became clear that Red Hat was going to shift to the KVM hypervisor when it  bought Qumranet for $107m in September 2008, Oracle looked around for another set of Xen tools and  snapped up Virtual Iron, which had its own variation on the Xen theme. But in August 2007 Citrix  bought XenSource, the controller of the Xen project, for $500m – a very large sum for a company that had only $1m in sales at the time.

Oracle likes to be in control, as it soon will be with Java, so why not with x64-based server virtualization as well as application streaming and desktop virtualization? Oracle is a good fit for Citrix. But then again, Novell and Citrix could also merge.
 

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