VMware Inc. announced yesterday the release of VMware Server, a free new entry-level hosted virtualization product for Linux and Windows servers.

VMware Server, the successor to VMware GSX Server, enables users to quickly provision new server capacity by partitioning a physical server into multiple virtual machines, bringing the powerful benefits of virtualization to every server.

While not open-source, this entry-level virtualization server enables users to partition x86 and x86-64 Linux and Windows servers into multiple virtual machines (VMs). Server administrators can either roll their own servers or use such pre-built servers as IBM WSE (Workplace Services Express), MySQL, or Oracle 10G.

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Chris Blizzard, manager of Red Hat's desktop group, announced on his blog, ReadHat will include Mono in FC5. Mono is an open source project that implements the Microsoft's .Net and sponsored by Novell.

Mono includes software called the Common Language Runtime to execute programs written in the C# programming language. With Mono, developers can write C# applications for Linux.

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