Alex Barrett states that “In the past couple of months, hosting providers ranging from IBM, NTT Communications in Japan, the Dutch virtual private server (VPS) provider Tilaa, and Houston, Texas-based The Planet have all said they will offer services based on KVM rather than Xen. At the same time, Red Hat released a beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 last week that no longer contains Xen, which has been in the distribution since RHEL 5.0, released in 2007.”