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Re:CEO: Red Hat potentially first billion dollar OSS company... by rwmj on Thursday September 22, 2011 @12:42PM (#3026668)
We're open sourcing our virtualization management product too on the 1st November:

http://www.ovirt.org/

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Re:CEO: Red Hat potentially first billion dollar OSS company... by sciurus on Thursday September 22, 2011 @01:16PM (#3026810)
So oVirt is the same software as RHEV-M 3.0?
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Re:CEO: Red Hat potentially first billion dollar OSS company... by aliguori on Thursday September 22, 2011 @02:22PM (#3027099)
Right, it's derived from the Qumranet SolidICE product. That's one big credit to Red Hat, they've had a consistent record of acquiring closed source companies and turning the products into successful Open Source projects.
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Re:CEO: Red Hat potentially first billion dollar OSS company... by rwmj on Thursday September 22, 2011 @01:44PM (#3026925)
It's the Java / Linux version of it, yes.

Confusingly "oVirt" has in the past referred to some different software. That's what you get for recycling a convenient domain name that we happened to own ...

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