Oracle virtualization support excludes VMware, Microsoft, Citrix

Oracle virtualization support excludes VMware, Microsoft, Citrix

The Oracle virtualization support policy has been the source of much confusion lately.

Oracle had changed

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its policy to say it would support its E-Business Suite running on virtualization offerings from third-party platform vendors. But when word got out, Oracle clarified its virtualization support policy to say "hardware vendors," not "platform vendors" -- ruling out VMware, Microsoft, Citrix Systems and other potential competitors.

In this edition of This Week in Virtualization, Senior News Director Barbara Darrow and SearchOracle.com Site Editor Ed Scannell talk about these policy changes and how Oracle licensing practices could affect Sun Microsystems customers.

This Week in Virtualization

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This was first produced in May 2009