As the other Linux provider, Novell goes to great lengths to differentiate its offering from rival Red Hat. The company’s expansive version 11 platform is no exception, and is said to promise unique advances in virtualization, management, interoperability, high availability and desktop computing. Version 11, for instance, incorporates the latest Xen 3.3 hypervisor and is optimized to run at “near native” performance on all leading hypervisors, including VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V and Xe