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Six client-server and middleware vendors that offer virtualization-friendly licensing terms, according to the Burton Group, are BEA Systems, Citrix, Novell, Red Hat, SAP and Sun.
Among operating systems, Burton Group gave the best marks to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, while detailing some shortcomings in Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Sun Solaris 10.
Microsoft is generally good, but customers need a license transfer to move a VM from one physical server to another, the report states. The Burton Group criticized Red Hat and Sun for only supporting certain virtualization products. "Red Hat does not offer [operating system] subscriptions per physical server when RHEL is run inside a [virtual machine] on a platform other than Red Hat," the report states. "Sun officially supports VMware ESX Server 2.5/3.x and Solar Containers for virtualizing the Solaris 10 OS."
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