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Windows will be killed by virtual appliances: VMware exec
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| Large commercial operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, will no
longer exist within five to ten years, according to a senior VMware executive.
| Instead there will only be very thin open source operating systems supporting
| virtual appliances.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19483/1168/
Dell is already preparing to do this (links below).
Earlier:
Evidence mounts for August Eee PC carnage with $299 Dell E launch
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| For that price, assuming everything we've heard so far is correct, you'll get
| an instant-on Linux distro running atop Intel's 1.6GHz Atom processor, a
| 1,024 x 600 display, 3x USB, a wee SSD, integrated webcam, WiFi, and more in
| a 0.82-1.22-inch thick sled weighing about 2.2-pounds.
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/15/evidence-mounts-for-august-eee-pc-carnage-with-299-dell-e-launc/
http://tinyurl.com/5n7zef
Recent:
SplashTop Linux On HP, Dell Notebooks?
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| Days after we delivered that inaugural review, we found out DeviceVM was in
| talks with OEMs about shipping SplashTop on desktops and notebooks.
|
| [...]
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| In addition to the instant-on Linux excitement this week for the HP Envy 133,
| Dell is apparently working on a similar Linux solution. Engadget has shared
| details surrounding the Dell E and E Slim.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=splashtop_voodoo&num=1
Related:
Dell Creating Consumer PCs Complete with Virtualization
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| And in a similar fashion to what Parallels and VMware Fusion did for the
| Intel-based Mac community, this could give the Linux operating system a boost
| from consumers who want to use the open source software but don't want to
| lose out on what Microsoft's Windows platforms offer.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2007/08/dell_creating_c.html
Dell considers bundling virtualization on motherboards
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| It's one of those ideas that you read and say to yourself, "Why didn't I
| think of that?"
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070808-dell-virtualization-on-motherboards.html
Linux and virtualisation are ideal partners: Dell
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| Virtual machines are easier to build if you are running Linux, according to
| Dell's chief technical officer Kevin Kettler.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Linux-and-virtualisation-are-ideal-partners-Dell/0,130061733,339281023,00.htm
VMware Predicts Death To Operating Systems
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| Mendel Rosenblum envisions a world run by virtualization appliances where
| software makers wouldn't need a bulky or complex OS.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201311257
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
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
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
Dell to stuff hypervisors in flash memory
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| Dell CTO Kevin Kettler today confirmed these plans during a speech here at
| LinuxWorld, saying the company expects to see major performance and
| power-saving improvements by dumping a hypervisor in flash. Customers will
| basically "boot to a virtual machine-ready" state, he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/dell_hypervisor_flash/
Dell plans virtualization-oriented server
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| Any new x86 server can run virtualization software, but Dell plans to
| release a model that's geared specifically to those drawn to the newly
| mainstream computing trend, CNET News.com has learned.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6169830.html
Virtualization: Linux's killer app
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| Think about it. Even Microsoft supports running Linux on its Virtual
| Server product. Why would it do that? Wouldn't an OS partitioning
| technology, such as that used by OpenVz or Sun Solaris, be more in
| keeping with the kind of homogeneous environments that Microsoft
| would like to see? Why would Microsoft invest its resources to
| support a virtual machine technology that can only open the
| door to Linux in the datacenter?
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/19/08OPopenent_1.html
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