Peter, On Friday 03 November 2006 13:54, Peter Flodin wrote: > .... > > You guys are missing why industry is so excited by Virtualization and > why MS can not allow itself to fall behind. > > For big business Virtualization is for the data centre. Say you run > an insurance company, or a bank. Instead of having Applications > running on real machines, you have virtual machines running on server > farms of host machines. ...
In a word: Flexibility Another word might be "control" and another "fine-tuning." And so on. There are lot of virtues to using virtual machine technology. That's why it's been in use for decades in large-scale data centers. (!) > ... > > Virtualization on the desktop has no place for normal users going > about their work in a business environment. Far from true. It may not be a majority of users that can benefit from it, but there surely are classes of users for which virtualization is superior to having multiple machines in your office. > ... > > Peter Flodin Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
