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Topic: Microsoft and VCSY
Soooo... no Viridian virtualization after all huh? Well, isn't THAT a surprise.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JMB5H2PHOJ1XIQSNDLPCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=199000558
Microsoft Delays Beta Test For Key Virtualization Product
But the company still plans on shipping the final version of within 180 days of the release of its next major server operating system.
By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
Apr 12, 2007 12:00 PM
The company said beta testing for its Windows Server virtualization software -- code named Viridian -- will begin in the second half of 2007 and not the first half, as originally planned.
"We still have some work to do to have the beta meet the... bar we have set," said Mike Neil, Microsoft's general manager for virtualization strategy, in a Thursday blog post.
Neil, however, said Microsoft as planned still expects to ship the final version of Viridian within 180 days of the release of its next major server operating system -- which currently goes by the name Longhorn. Microsoft expects to release Longhorn to manufacturing by the end of 2007, a company spokesman said, meaning Viridian is slated to launch by June, 2008 at the latest. On his blog, Neil also said the final version of R2 service pack 1 for Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 product will ship in the second quarter of this year. It was originally scheduled to ship by the end of March. "We required some additional time to test the new operating systems that will be supported with the service pack," including SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Solaris 10 and a recent Longhorn build, wrote Neil.
Virtualization refers to the process of subdividing resources on a computer into discrete units that can act as separate machines, running their own instances of operating systems and applications. The technique is widely used in business computing environments that want to achieve maximum return on their computer hardware investments.
Viridian is a key part of Microsoft's campaign to develop virtualization products that can compete with those offered by specialists like EMC's VMware unit. Neil wrote that Microsoft is designing Viridian so that it can scale across servers running up to 64 processors and said the capability "is something no other vendor's product supports."
AND WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?
http://www.programmersheaven.com/c/MsgBoard/read.asp?Board=810&MsgID=357611&Setting=A9999F0001
Hey Portuno! Have ya seen this Apple Anouncement??????
By: Poscashflow on April 12, 2007 at 4:09:38 PM
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Apple delays Leopard; iPhone on schedule
Maker of iPod, Mac computers needed resources for release of the iPhone.
April 12 2007: 6:01 PM EDT
http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/12/technology/apple/index.htm?postversion=2007041218
Apple delays Leopard; iPhone on schedule
Maker of iPod, Mac computers needed resources for release of the iPhone.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Apple Inc. said Thursday it pushed back the release of its new operating system, Leopard, until October from its target date of June.
Uhhhh... excuse me? Isn't that the original 'rumor' that everybody said would never happen? So rumors are real and Apple's affirmations are worthless. Hmmm. Will they never learn?
The company said the delay occurred because critical software and resources were needed to complete Apple's iPhone, which has passed several tests and is still on schedule to be released in late June.
Oh I gotta hear THIS rationalization!
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Shares of Apple (Charts) tumbled 2.6 percent in after-hours trading on Nasdaq.
A near final version of Leopard will be shown at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June, where developers will be given a copy to perform final testing, the company said.
"We think it will be well worth the wait," Apple said in a statement. "Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones."
Tim Bajarin, an analyst with Creative Strategies in San Jose, California, said the delay in Leopard could slow the pop in sales that normally comes from die-hard Apple computer fans, who will now likely wait to buy new computers.
"I actually think the effect is going to be somewhat negligible," Bajarin said.
Leopard is expected to boast new features including a file backup feature called "Time Machine" and improvements to its e-mail and instant messaging software. Another feature allows users to move from their standard desktop view to an archival view showing every change made to a particular file.
-- Reuters contributed to this report
Hmmmm. Seems I remember something about that 'rumor'.
Looks like the Hindenburg has landed.
Remember this? Photos from the trip over the Isle of Truth.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=344
March 23rd, 2007
Is Microsoft’s Vista behind Apple’s alleged ‘Leopard’ delay?
Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 9:08 am
DigiTimes is reporting that Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' release has been delayed from April to October. The reason, DigiTimes claims: Windows Vista.
Apple is holding off on the Leopard release in order to make "BootCamp" — its software allowing Windows to run on Mac OS X – Vista-compatible, according to the report. (Currently, BootCamp supports Windows XP only.)
I have asked Apple for comment on DigiTimes' report. So far, no word back. A company spokesman provided the following statement:
"We don't comment on rumors and we've made no announcements about Leopard availability more specific than Spring 2007. "
(So all that means is Apple hasn't yet officially updated folks on Leopard availability.)
Back to the original premise. If DigiTimes is right, it will be interesting to see how Apple plays this. Will Apple blame Vista for Leopard being several months late? (Ditto with Mac fans.)
If so, Apple wouldn't be the first vendor (including some of Microsoft's own software units) to claim that Vista's slips resulted in its inability to release Vista-compatible software in a more timely manner.
But how much does Vista compatibility matter to Apple and current/future Apple buyers? With a number of existing Microsoft customers holding off from upgrading to Vista for a variety of reasons, does Vista compatibility really merit delaying a new product release by several months?
What's your take? If Leopard is, in fact, delayed, is making sure BootCamp is Vista-compatible a good enough reason?
Hey Mary Jo. I guess Digitimes was right on that one huh?
Well, we know why they used Jupiter Research to 'squelch' the rumor saying 'Apple Management said so'.
Looks like some Apple shareholders need an explanation right?
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/03/26/apple.denies.leopard.delay/
Apple denies Mac OS X Leopard delays
03/26/2007, 9:20am, EDT
Monday, March 26th
Apple has denied circulating rumors of delays in Mac OS X Leopard, its next-generation operating system. A report by Michael Gartenberg of JupiterResearch says that Apple has confirmed Leopard will ship in the "spring", contrary a rumor floated by the somewhat unreliable Asian Digitimes publication. Last week, it claimed that Apple was going to delay the release of Leopard--until possibly October--to allow Leopard to support Windows Vista via Boot Camp. "The rumor mill is wrong again," Gartenberg wrote in his blog. The company, however, in February flatly denied delays in shipment of its revolutionary Apple TV set-top until just a few days before launch, despite published reports to the contrary. The much-anticipated device, formally introduced in January at Macworld Expo, was delayed by just over three weeks and began arriving in customers hands last week.
