Fixing everything, really slowly

Found via the still vaguely useful system news (formally Sun system news) site:

Oracle WebLogic Server can now run directly on Oracle VM without an operating system, a unique capability enabled by Oracle JRockit Virtual Edition.

This caught my eye because it’s kind of lame that Java applications in virtualised environments have to run behind so many layers of abstraction (Java Virtual Machine, Operating System, Visualised Server). You can read more about the product here:

What strikes me is a total lack of mention of the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and the requirement that the product will only run under OracleVM. What a lost opportunity.

It’s one thing that they are locking customers in to their virtualization product (rather than letting them use VMWare, Citrix XenServer or Hyper-V), but its darn right stupid that it doesn’t support their own Virtualization products VirtualBox or the Xen implementation in Solaris.

I hate to judge early but it seems Oracle hasn’t changed one bit with the acquisition with Sun. They will continue to make overpriced products which needlessly lock customers in. I think that’s a shame.

Still, it would be interesting to know what they use for a file system in this thing.