Microsoft will take a swing at VMware at WinHEC this week by announcing plans to accelerate the delivery of its planned virtualization hypervisor, code-named Viridian, and will debut its virtualization management platform, code-named Carmine.
The plan is to try to get Viridian in private beta into a limited number of partners’ hands sometime in the fourth quarter of 2006 and make it available as an add-on service for Windows Longhorn Server in the next two years, sources said. It is currently slated for the R2 release of the Windows server expected in 2009 or 2010.
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