It seems everybody is getting into the server virtualization game these days.  Back in October Sun announced it was entering the server virtualization space with it’s $2B investment into Sun xVM.  In November Oracle announced it’s getting into the space with Oracle VM. 

It’s interesting to see two strong partners of VMware decide that this technology is too important to leave in VMware’s hands.  I think what these and other vendors have figured out is that the hypervisor is the new Data Center OS and if you want to control the Data Center you need to own it’s OS.

Another interesting fact is that both Sun and Oracle have decided to build their solutions around the open source hypervisor, Xen.  Although I haven’t seen a lot of Xen deployed into my customers Data Centers I predict we’ll see a lot more of it in 2008. 

It’s going to be interesting to sit back and watch as VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, and the host of others do battle for the customers dollar.  The good news is customers have a lot of choices now, the bad news is customers have a lot of choices.

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