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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

To include Microsoft and the principal API "of Viridian" - - the delinquent use etc. of patent right to release under OSP, in the customer and the ope

The United States Microsoft announced that October 24th, the hypothetical conversion hyper visor "Windows Server Virtualization which is known with the development cord/code name" of Viridian "(WSV)" principal API, OSP (Open Specification Promise) is released with under. It adjusts to the release of WSV, it is free in the customer and the business partner and the open source community etc. and it discloses & offers.

OSP, in the program which designates the technical specification of specification which Microsoft has as the object, does not insist the intellectual property right and patent right of technology, it is free and it designates that it releases as purpose. The same company says that this time "the hyper call API" of WSV is added to the object of OPS.

Microsoft so far, Web service protocol and hypothetical hard disk image format "Virtual of 35 types Hard Drive (VHD)", four security technologies, releases the specification of two XML files formats and one robotics protocol, under each one OSP.

As for formal specification of hyper call API, the RTM edition of Viridian (for manufacturing process release) with it is the schedule which is released together. When, it releases up-to-date draft specification to that, the developer that tries it can access the same API with Microsoft you have expressed. The same company held the draft document of hyper call API, with "WinHEC 2006" distributed to the developer for the first time in the May last year.

For the present, concerning the shipment time of Viridian it seems that from the past is not modification. You express Microsoft that from the time before, within 180 day after the RTM edition releases of Windows Server 2008 which has been planned 2008 1st quarter Viridian is shipped.

If hyper call API is used, it reaches the point where the resource can be required from guest OS side vis-a-vis the hypothetical conversion hyper visor. As Microsoft, WSV (Viridian) and it is the thought of liking to appeal the same API to all organizations which manage the development of the application which cooperates with Windows Server 2008.

Vis-a-vis the decision of latest Microsoft, the same company Novell and Citrix Systems which is intimate relationship stated support promptly. Each both corporations, sell the hypothetical conversion product which designates the hypothetical conversion engine "Xen" of the open source as the base. As known, Citrix XenSource (the development origin of Xen) succeeded in also purchase.

Upper-class vice president and the open source charge general manager and of Novell said, that most of the customer desires the interoperability guaranty of the OS platform, commented as follows concerning the latest movement.

The decision of Microsoft that, "releases hyper call API under OSP, for Novell and that customer, the partner, and the open source community very happiness it forces and it is thing. Because the high quality which actualizes the true interoperability of Windows and Linux it becomes easy to develop the hypothetical conversion solution ",

On the one hand, CTO of Citrix (the highest technical patsy) Simon Crosby which is after emphasizing that the same company offers the hypothetical conversion solution of the high added value which corresponds to the Windows platform, hypothetical machine and Viridian which were drawn up with XenServer (WSV) with showed the intention which raises interoperability to a greater extent.

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