[HIB]Can't touch this - Oracle names self virtualization king

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If Oracle and Sun Microsystems have anything in common - and as the poster children for Silicon Valley's IT upstarts, they have much in common - it is that they are not afraid to say they have the best technology and no one can touch them. That, in a nutshell, was what Oracle's top techies spent hours trying to convince the world in a webcast presentation going over the myriad server and desktop virtualization products that come from the merged Oracle and Sun. There wasn't a lot of news in the four hour presentation, but there was plenty of talk and that shows how Oracle plans to pitch its virtualization products against competitors. "Oracle's virtualization delivers more value that VMware," the opening screen of the webcast declares, with familiar the - "Oracle. Complete." - theme woven in. "I don't think anyone is even close to what Oracle provides," declared Ed Screven, chief corporate architect at Oracle. Screven is correct in saying that most server virtualization products have the management of applications as a separate thing and they focus merely on managing the virtualization operating systems and clusters of physical servers to run the hypervisors that support them. With the combination of Oracle VM for x64 (Oracle's Xen) and Sparc (Sun's LDoms) and OpsCenter (from Sun), and Oracle Enterprise Manager (which manages Oracle middleware and applications), Oracle can, did, and will continue to make a very credible argument that all you need to run virtualized Oracle application on Oracle iron is Oracle's virtualization.

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