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XenSource CEO Addresses Microsoft, Red Hat-Novell Dispute: Page 5 of 6

CRN: But it works?

Levine: of course, it works. But XenSource, we're going after five to 10 installations.

CRN: What might Red Hat gain by delaying the release of RHEL 5?

Levine: Their market is enterprise Linux and a certain expectation their customers have is that it has to run thousands of guests on tens of thousands of systems and the more systems you have, the more complicated it gets. If Red Hat had a product now for the midmarket, it's fine now for midmarket. We're standing by our [product] but we're not going after the data center market like Red Hat. Anytime you do more testing, the longer they wait, the more testing they do and the better it gets.

CRN: but do you expect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will have more virtualization functionality that Novell's SLES 10?