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Virtualization race prediction

Virtualization means efficient way of hardware resource management, which would be better done by firmware and operating system. So, when OS or processor suppliers realize that virtualization can be an inevitable tool to customers, this resource management thing will no longer be a toy, but an internalized organ. That's not good for ISVs of virtualization, such as Vmware.

A  reasonable prediction is that vmware will have a hard time facing competitors: Linux's Xen, MS's virtual PC/Server, SUN's intrinsic containers, Oracle's coming thing, etc.

Virtualization, like everything else in system software land, should be free and as invisible as possible, or, users should not pay too much for such an admin tool.

Posted at 06:19PM Nov 15, 2007 by gnunu in General  |