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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
Or in the opposite direction, leverage SuSE as the basis for the hypervisor; ESX 3.0/3.5 were based on a modified 2.4 Linux kernel. Already, VMware Workstation supports both NetWare and SLES out of the box.
In addition VMware might find competition in the form of Oracle; they have Sun which means they now have VirtualBox, easily the closest competitor on the desktop.
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On the desktop. I have it here. But VMWare wants the corporate market, with all the data centers containing tens or hundreds of rack mounted servers. In that market, the competition is probably Xen, and since Intel is producing CPUs with virtualization support, an offering from them would not surprise me.
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Easy: Less competition. Most recent desktop converts get glassy-eyed at the prospect of distro-hopping and tend (in my experience) to give up and go back to Windows. One less server running SLES is one more potential repeat Win2k8 customer. Also, fewer resources required for NetWare compatibility; after all if Novell isn't around to support it, why should MS?
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I'm not sure what resources are required for Netware support. Netware hasn't changed significantly in terms of the underlying IPX/SPX protocol. The Windows networking support for Netware probably hasn't been touched in years. I suppose Microsoft gets the odd support call about it. (An old friend who does telecom and networking use IPX/SPX as a simple "It just works" way to connect printers at customer sites.)
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Dennis