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Someday they're going to realize VMware is arbitrating access to their hardware and is therefore an operating system, Windows (or Linux) on top of it is just a

Someday they're going to realize VMware is arbitrating access to their hardware and is therefore an operating system, Windows (or Linux) on top of it is just a ridiculously large API compatibility layer, and they only need that until they buy or build native VMware apps to do the same work (I think the marketers call them "appliances").

gaius 17y ago
People are realizing that. Why do you need a Windows file server when a NetApp speaks CIFS? You would need some sort of storage array anyway! Even these days, an awful lot of Windows servers are doing exactly what Netware was doing before them, file and print serving. MS obviously recognize this with the new Server Core Edition. But printers are first-class citizens too now, many of them don't need a server, they just plug directly into the network, run their own admin app over HTTP...
- tptacek 17y ago
  Because the NetApp costs a whole hell of a lot more than a Windows server?
  - gaius 17y ago
    You would have to buy the disks anyway.
nebula 17y ago
You are absolutely right. Look at http://storagezilla.typepad.com/storagezilla/2009/08/vmwarespringsource-death-of-the-server-template.html http://storagezilla.typepad.com/storagezilla/2009/08/vmwares... For some perspective on Vmware's strategy in this area.
- halo 17y ago
  >And he's right, if we look around we see lots of 3rd generation Frameworks and some of them are more cross platform than others. We all know about Java and .Net but Cocoa for MacOS X (Found on your Mac and your iPhone) Adobe Air, Microsoft Silverlight and so on are all examples of Third Generation Frameworks. Erm, one of them isn't like the others.