On Thu, 16 May 2013 08:08:35 -0400, zMan wrote: >First sentence: What? > FSVO "any". VirtualBox supports only x86 hosts and guests; I don't know about VMware.
And at installation, VirtualBox asks you to tailor the guest for Linux, Solaris, or Windows. And I believe (oral communication only) that at least VirtualBox lacks a pedantic sort of sort of closure: the VirtualBox hypervisor won't run in a VirtualBox guest. >Second: It might. That's certainly the hobbyist's argument. IBM doesn't see >it that way, clearly. > > >On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Scott Ford wrote: > >> You run just about any system in vbox or VMware we do, including various >> variants of Linux .. >> I understand IBM fighting hercules but ...wouldn't it also bring in more >> business like zpdt does ? >> Consider that IBM can afford to provide specialty engines at 1/4 the price of general purpose engines. Looked at the other way, this means IBM is charging a severely captive clientele for the general engines at a 300% markup over revenue break-even. This leaves a lot of elbow room for competitors to undercut price. Understandably IBM is protective. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
