It's hard to know whether there's more than meets the eye with Red Hat's acquisition of Qumranet. Yes, it gets expertise in the open source KVM hypervisor, and KVM is the alternative preferred by open source developers. But what can Red Hat actually do with a desktop virtualization product? How's it going to make headway against Citrix XenServer and VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure? There's potential in KVM but is there traction in desktop virtualization for Red Hat?

There's two open source hypervisors now in play: Xen and KVM. Xen has a head start and a lot of major league backers, such as IBM, Oracle, Sun and Virtual Iron. But so far it's been more of a vendor-based open source project than a grass roots open source programmer phenomenon. Indeed, each vendor purposely takes open source Xen and goes off and does something unique to it that fits its goals and purposes.

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Red Hat In Desktop Virtualization--Who's Buying That? - InformationWeek

  

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