Brian Madden's Blog
VMware deserves a lot of credit. Even though hardware virtualization has been
around for decades in one form or another, we wouldn't have it in the x86
space without VMware. The hardware and OS vendors would have been happy to
keep selling hardware that was only 20% utilized. VMware turned this industry
on its head. But it has awoken the slumbering giant that is Microsoft...
[Note from the author: This wasn't an article I intended to write right now.
But after Alex Barrett blogged about a conversation I had with her last week
on this very topic, my inbox has been flooded with emails asking "Did Alex
really quote you properly?" and "Are you crazy?" The answers to those two
questions are "yes" and "quite possibly."]
VMware deserves a lot of credit. Even t... (more)