Microsoft executives talk about cloud computing, we are not afraid

&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">nbsp; Microsoft has made frequent moves this year, launching WindowsServer2008 and SQLServer2008, increasing its influence in the data center. To be successful, however, Microsoft must overcome the negative effects of the current grim economic environment, while also responding to strong challenges from rivals such as Oracle and VMware, such as the previous Microsoft launch of a free hyper-vserver standalone installation to counter VMware's powerful offensive.

Bob Kelly, Vice manager of Microsoft Server marketing, spoke about Windows Server 2008 promotion and Microsoft's cloud Services program in an interview with IDG News services, and told Paul Maritz, a former Microsoft executive and current VMware CEO, about " "The traditional server operating system tends to die out" comments.

Q: We rarely hear from Microsoft about the promotion of WindowsServer2008 and SQLServer2008 products, could you tell us something about the current progress? For example, it is said that many customers have been transferred from Oracle platform to Microsoft platform.

Bob: The ultimate goal of our work is not to defeat Oracle, to rob them of the market, we are striving to be our own software products for customers to use, to provide a strong platform for business services. I just want to do better for the needs of our customers. This, in turn, is why customers choose us.

The promotion of the two products mentioned above is being carried out in an orderly manner and is increasingly accepted and recognized by the market. But the application of the OS is not a rapid process, such as WindowsServer2008, in order to make the product more perfect, there are some follow-up development work needs to be improved, such as the load we care about, as well as improve the efficiency of power management and so on.

Q: You have said that the application of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 is the fastest in the product you see, can you give me a specific introduction?

Bob: In the x86 server market, we are getting more market share than ever before, as evidenced by IDC or Gartner data. The future promotion speed will be faster, it is possible to sell nearly million software licenses to users every quarter of the time.

In addition, the Windows Server 2008 we provide is a combination of 3 SKUs, almost all designed for virtualization platforms. The way it works: If you run only one virtual machine, you can choose WINDOWSSERVER2008 Standard Edition, if you have up to four virtual machines, you can use the Enterprise version, if you want the number of virtual machines Unlimited, then use the datacenter version.