Dell Hoping Hypervisor Will Open Up Desktop Linux Market
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| Plenty of vendors are jumping into the virtualization marketplace, so it will
| be interesting if Dell is able to garner a following with this approach,
| especially if the sole purpose is to help break open the enterprise Linux
| market.
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http://www.networkcomputing.com/channels/storageandservers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201311298
Dual Booting Windows-Linux: The Dell Option
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| Generally when a company is considering an upgrade to new workstations or
| notebook computers, they will elect to use Microsoft Windows. Not out of love
| for the operating system, rather out of understanding for the importance of
| familiarity and compatibility with the existing office ecosystem. Sounds like
| a good approach, until the ecosystem breaks down with a security breach
| targeting the OS used almost exclusively by the business in question.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3693581
I wonder how the news below affects this development. It's anti-competitive and
someone should contact Neelie Kroes's agency.
Yesterday:
Microsoft Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux
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| Microsoft will not allow Windows Vista or Windows XP to be virtualized on top
| of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director of Microsoft's open-source software lab,
| said at the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here Aug. 7.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168183,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Also yesterday:
Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
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| For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after
| deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author,
| entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as
| saying, "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your
| Windows box, you just have to work on it."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168426,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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