Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 01:13 GMT

The reason why Sun bundled Hyper-V and ESX with its servers is that xVM Server is still not ready.

The product is still alive but the final release has been pushed back to Q2 2009.

See http://blogs.lemagit.fr/2009/01/26/sun-microsystems-xvm-server-pushed-back-to-q2-2009/

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