Virtualization is hot because Windows is not.
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| Like many frustrated Unix weenies I bear a long standing resentment for the
| way Microsoft simply obliterated the enterprise server market back in the mid
| 90’s. Whether your favorite flavor was Solaris, HPUX, AIX, or IRIX (mine!) a
| Unix guy grew up with things like reliability, uptime, shared resources,
| multitasking, simple interface and openness.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=469
VMware Jumps on Analyst Comment
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| For now, he said, the company's products are at least 18 months ahead of the
| nearest competition, a free product from Microsoft Corp. Other companies are
| struggling to attract users.
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| Shares gained $9, or 15.7 percent, to $66.33 in afternoon trading.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070821/vmware_mover.html?.v=1linux
"Poorly-hacked Linux". VMWare /is/ Linux.
Here comes the FUD (flavour of "P2P is threat to national security"):
Virtualization stretching IT security pressures
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| Chad Lorenc, information security officer at a financial services company
| that he asked not be named, said that IT security and compliance projects are
| far more complex undertakings on virtual machines than on servers that run a
| single operating system and a single application.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1029336345&rid=-50
More FUD?
Facebook could pose security risk to companies
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| Sophos found that a number of profiles on Facebook contain employment details
| which, the company warns, could be used together with other stolen data to
| commit corporate fraud or to gain access to company networks.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41832
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