Opensource types have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the big M - this case study lends weight to the former with a detailed examination of cost savings and virtualization at Reactiongrid
Well it had to happen sooner or later - but Microsoft didn't let
Reactiongrid slip under their radar. While we all love running our
regions on Linux under Mono, there are many benefits to running
Opensimulator on Windows 2008 in it's native C# both for region
operators and end users - as Adam outlined in his recent "How to choose a good
opensim host" article.
Lets face it "big bad" Microsoft in recent years has softened
it's approach somewhat by embracing opensource projects, and
creating more flexible licensing. We suspect that their hidden
agenda is to sell more licenses for windows servers, hyper-v and
possibly visual studio - but is that really such a bad thing? Not
really they are a business after all.
Enter Reactiongrid with an excellent example of how
virtualization can cut server costs and improve management -
exactly what everybody running grid servers need, and for Microsft
adding further weight to their Hyper-V technology argument. We've
dabbled with Hyper-V ourselves and it is rather good fun running
virtualized linux on a windows box :) After all we run windows
under Xen so why not the other way round?
So well done to the team at Reactiongrid - great to see such a
postive view in the marketspace.
Please click here for the Reactiongrid Case Study on Microsoft :)
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