Oracle Virtualization Strategy

I ran across this article while doing some research tonight and thought you guys might be interested in it. I had not considered this part of the Oracle purchase of SUN. I don't think it has much of a hope if they seriously consider competing with VMware, but then again Larry Ellison knows how to make a buck.
I am really interested in seeing what Oracle does with all of the things that SUN has going on. I definitely think you are going to see some type of Oracle appliance based on Solaris x86 and zfs, with the thought of virtualization thrown into the mix (and from what James is telling me SUN's Virtual Box may be better than VMware server (not esx)) there may some real interesting things come out over the next couple of years. It would behove them to drop "Unbreakable Linux" in favor of Solaris now that he owns it, most of the enterprise installs run Solaris anyway. It would also let him drop his vm hyper visor that hasn't really caught on in favor of Virtual Box if they can get it to run on its own like ESX does. With Oracle marketing a lot of the SUN products could enjoy a resurgence that they couldn't have had on their own and would have been killed by IBM.


http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/oracle-sun-a-threat-to-vmware/