____/ Phil on Sunday 16 September 2007 17:47 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> VMware Gives Microsoft the Touch of Death
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | IDC analyst Stephen Elliot agreed that Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., has
>> | been slow out of the virtualization gate, maybe out of fear that the
>> | technology would hurt software license sales.
>> |
>> | "Microsoft may not have understood the business model of virtualization.
>> | Their executives may have been fearful of the impact of this trend on
>> | their core business," he said.
>> `----
>
> I am not an expert in this at all, but my thoughts have been for some
> time that Windows was the prime driving force for virtualization.
>
> When you have an OS that hogs, wastes and grudgingly doles out system
> resources to the extent that you can really have only one functional
> application per server, then the innovation of virtualization was really
> preordained.
>
> Truly necessity is the mother of invention.
Heh. How about Mundie saying that Google needed Microsoft to succeed in his
recent interview with APC magazine? He also thought that Linux growth in
servers has plateaued.
I wonder what sort of waterkool-ers (sic) they have in Redmond.
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