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Local resellers sought to sell software management products

I came away from InfoWorld's Virtualization Executive Forum this week with two conclusions. First, server virtualization is definitely a big deal. This time last year, customers and ISVs still seemed to be struggling to come to terms with this new approach to deploying and managing servers; today it's full speed ahead. And, second, nowhere is virtualization hotter than in the Linux market.

Beset by customer defections to Microsoft and open-source vendors such as MySQL AB, Oracle is making a bid to win back users by enhancing its free tools for migrating data and applications from non-Oracle to Oracle systems.

Quest Software has released a new tool to move public folders from Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server software to SharePoint Server 2007.

Reiterating that it wants to play better with others, Microsoft has started a group to promote software interoperability. Twenty-five companies, including Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, XenSource and Novell, have agreed to join the Interop Vendor Alliance announced Tuesday at Microsoft's IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain.

Microsoft has unveiled the future of software distribution with the introduction of a virtual product evaluation program that lets users easily test server applications within a virtualised environment.

A couple of weeks ago, I took BEA to task for insinuating that the open source community wasn't capable of delivering good management tools for its software. A few readers leapt to the defense: BEA is right, they said. Management is critical in complex environments, and the management capabilities of open source software are often pretty poor.

Quest Software next week plans to update two of its management packages designed to make it easier to manage and provision users into Microsoft's identity and access control infrastructure, whether they work on Windows, Linux or Unix.

An e-mail server can stop delivering e-mail for several reasons: a loss of Internet connectivity, a hardware failure, an operating system crash, an e-mail server software crash, or a corruption of the database that stores the messages. The traditional backup-and-restore process can take hours to resurrect a server, and any mail that comes in while the server is down will be lost. As a result, not surprisingly, many organizations demand CDP (continuous data protection) for e-mail.

Microsoft on Monday moved to improve its portfolio of management tools by acquiring DesktopStandard, which develops software that uses group policy for managing computers.

Quest Software on Tuesday added project management and task scheduling to its tools for migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange.