On Nov 1, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Paul Raulerson wrote:
I am very confused indeed by this whole conversation -VMWARE and z/ VM solve different solutions. And they are both extraordinarily good at what they do.
IBM is positioning z/VM as a platform for virtualization, for hosting Linux applications and for other guest OSes.
Which, from what I hear, is how VMWARE is being positioned. Bring together those light applications, those occasionally used Linux daemons.
This reminds me of personal computer market space twenty-five to thirty years ago: people bought Apple ][s because it had Visicalc. Then Lotus 1-2-3 sold a few IBM PCs. Applications sold hardware.
Both z/VM and VMWARE are selling virtualization for Linux applications. Are shops going to invest in Z platform or in WinTel platform to support Linux application virtualization?
All of us can point to things either platform doesn't support, but to some managers, the question is regrettably simple: "OK, where do we put the next applications that can be virtualized?"
