Comments on: Novell Coughs Up $205 Million for Canadian Virtualization Startup PlateSpin http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/02/25/novell-coughs-up-205-million-for-canadian-virtualization-startup-platespin/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:30:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Wade Roush http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/02/25/novell-coughs-up-205-million-for-canadian-virtualization-startup-platespin/comment-page-1/#comment-8374 Wade Roush Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:54:53 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2008/02/25/novell-coughs-up-205-million-for-canadian-virtualization-startup-platespin/#comment-8374 John, Thanks for your comment. I wasn't fully up to speed about Novells's four business units and your comment and your blog post definitely help to explain how the Platespin acquisition rounds out the company's set of products around virtualization. Good luck. John,

Thanks for your comment. I wasn’t fully up to speed about Novells’s four business units and your comment and your blog post definitely help to explain how the Platespin acquisition rounds out the company’s set of products around virtualization. Good luck.

]]> By: John Dragoon http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/02/25/novell-coughs-up-205-million-for-canadian-virtualization-startup-platespin/comment-page-1/#comment-8370 John Dragoon Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:44:25 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2008/02/25/novell-coughs-up-205-million-for-canadian-virtualization-startup-platespin/#comment-8370 Wade, You're right about our infrastructure software for identity management, Linux and collaboration. You have missed a major 4th business unit and focus for us which is our Systems and Resource Management business and ZENworks product line. The PlateSpin acquisition is core to extending our heterogeneous IT management capabilities. Prior to this acquisition, we already had a leading virtualization platform (SUSE Linux with Xen hypervisor) and the management tools to handle (ZENworks Orchestrator). Now we have a leading solution for streaming workloads to virtual and physical environments AND a tool to discover which workloads should be virtualized. It's a great fit and I've written more on my blog at http://www.novell.com/company/blogs/cmo/ Thanks. John Dragoon Wade,

You’re right about our infrastructure software for identity management, Linux and collaboration. You have missed a major 4th business unit and focus for us which is our Systems and Resource Management business and ZENworks product line. The PlateSpin acquisition is core to extending our heterogeneous IT management capabilities. Prior to this acquisition, we already had a leading virtualization platform (SUSE Linux with Xen hypervisor) and the management tools to handle (ZENworks Orchestrator). Now we have a leading solution for streaming workloads to virtual and physical environments AND a tool to discover which workloads should be virtualized. It’s a great fit and I’ve written more on my blog at http://www.novell.com/company/blogs/cmo/

Thanks.

John Dragoon

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