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VMware: Another Netscape?
An anonymous reader writes "
This CRN article states that Microsoft is about to buy Connectix and enter the server consolidation market. Connectix makes virtual machines products that compete with those of VMware. Quote: 'The technology will be integrated into the Windows code, sources said.' Will Microsoft be able to pull this one off? Will their virtual machines run operating systems other than Microsoft's?"
...now we can have a tail-recursive win32 delay loop.
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Microsoft To Buy Connectix To Enter Server Consolidation Market
Assimilation to be announced Thursday
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If you are running 50 instances of NT Server on a single box, how many NT licenses do you need?
that they're just trying to find some way to make it look like typing "ls" on a Linux shell gives you a BSOD.
Virtual worms taking advantage of virtual exploits via virtual bugs on virtual servers.
Where to you want to go today?
Trolling is a art,
Instead of:
"...Microsoft is about to buy Connectix and enter the server consolidation market."
Doesn't the author mean to say:
"...Microsoft is about to buy Connectix and enter the server decimation market."
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mmm, very well...Blue Screens for none!
Very well....blue screens for some, horrible security holes for others!
Whatever.
Doc
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
What's wrong with this? Now maybe we can finally get a PlayStation emulator built into Windows.
Meecrusufft Tu Booy Cunnecteex Tu Inter Serfer Cunsuleedeshun Merket
Ecqooeesishun tu be-a unnuoonced Thoorsdey
By Poola Ruuney, CRN
Redmund, Vesh.
11:28 EM IST Ved., Feb. 19, 2003
Meecrusufft pluns tu teke-a a geeunt leep intu zee serfer cunsuleedeshun spece-a thees veek by unnuoonceeng zee ecqooeesishun ooff furtooel serfer sufftvere-a cumpuny Cunnecteex.
Zee sufftvere-a geeunt, vheech is ixpected tu furmelly unfeeel zee deel Thoorsdey, veell use-a zee technulugy tu elloo coostumers tu cerfe-a oooot moolteeple-a perteeshuns oon a seengle-a Intel-besed serfer, ellooeeng zeem tu roon moolteeple-a instunces ooff a seengle-a oopereteeng system und moolteeple-a vurklueds.
"Zeey see-a a merket in serfer cunsuleedeshun und zeey vunt a peeece-a ooff it," seeed oone-a suoorce-a femeelier veet zee deel.
Cunnecteex, vheech is preefetely held und ves fuoonded in 1988, prufeedes furtooeleezeshun sufftvere-a fur Veendoos-besed cumpooteeng. Lest fell, it loonched a prudooct celled Furtooel Serfer thet ooffffers un interpreese-a-cless furtooeleezeshun sulooshun fur Veendoos-besed serfers. Zee technulugy hes beee in beta testeeng, und Meecrusufft is ixpected tu prudoocteeze-a it und sheep it leter thees yeer effter reeguruoos testeeng.
Furtooel Serfer is a neteefe-a Veendoos-besed serfer eppleeceshun thet inebles coostumers tu roon a veede-a runge-a ooff serfer oopereteeng systems incloodeeng Veendoos, Leenoox, Uneex, OoS/2 und DOS, cuncoorrently oon a seengle-a physeecel serfer, veethin isuleted furtooel mecheenes.
Cunnecteex elsu mekes Furtooel PC fur Veendoos, Furtooel PC fur Mec und Furtooel PC fur OoS/2, vheech elloos coostumers tu roon moolteeple-a oopereteeng systems oon a PC.
Zee technulugy veell be-a integreted intu zee Veendoos cude-a, suoorces seeed.
Heegh-ind Intel serfers frum Uneesys und NEC ooffffer beseec herdvere-a perteeshuns fur Veendoos 2000 Detecenter Serfer, yet zee edupshun ooff smerter, furtooel mecheene-a sufftvere-a veell inhunce-a thuse-a cepebeelities seegnifficuntly, suoorces seeed.
CRN furst vrute-a ebuoot Meecrusufft's iffffurts tu integrete-a sufftvere-a perteeshuning in Veendoos serfer lest spreeng.
"Meecrusufft hes respunded tu a need coostumers hefe-a esked fur," seeed oone-a suoorce-a elsu femeelier veet zee deel. "It veell prufeede-a serfer cunsuleedeshun, sufftvere-a deestribooshun und better defelupment, und zeey ere-a mufeeng tu eddress thet."
Suoorces femeelier veet zee iffffurt seeed zee ecqooeesishun ooff zee technulugy veell ineble-a Meecrusufft tu meke-a its Veendoos Serfer mure-a cumpeteetife-a veet pupooler serfer cunsuleedeshun pletffurms sooch es IBM's zSereees und heegh-ind Uneex mecheenes. IBM's zSereees, vheech roons its oovn prupreeetery meeenffreme-a oopereteeng system vheele-a elsu ellooeeng zee depluyment ooff thuoosunds ooff Leenoox furtooel mecheenes roonneeng vurklueds oon a seengle-a sefer, is beeeng edupted by Vell Street furms mufeeng tu Leenoox und oozeer coostumers luukeeng tu mexeemize-a zee fooll resuoorces ooff zeeur systems.
Zee Cunnecteex technulugy veell elloo coostumers tu roon moolteeple-a vurklueds oon a seengle-a PC und serfer, thoos inebleeng zee fooll uteelizeshun ooff ell system resuoorces oon a Penteeoom-besed PC und heegh-ind serfers,a deefffficoolt chellenge-a und un oobstecle-a tu noo PC und serfer poorcheses, suoorces seeed. It veell elsu elloo cumpuneees tu meke-a zee meegreshun prucess ieseeer seence-a zeey cun roon moolteeple-a instunces ooff zee Veendoos oopereteeng system oon a seengle-a PC und fereeuoos ferseeuns ooff Veendoos serfer sufftvere-a oon Intel serfers.
Feenelly, zee technulugy, vheech is ixpected tu be-a integreted intu zee Veendoos cleeent und serfer femeely, veell ineble-a coostumers tu depluy test eppleeceshuns oon PCs und serfers veethuoot interroopteeng zee nurmel oopereshun ooff ixeesting eppleeceshuns. Bork Bork Bork!
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You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
they SELL windows liscenses??? Gee, and I thought the .txt file with the key in it was included with EVERY copy of windows...
who knew???
of coure, I better not let the BSA hear me say that, they might give me a merit badge in thievery!
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Johnny has 25 NT boxes and 19 of them have WVMS (windows virtual machine software) running on them. If 7 of those 19 are running WVMS within WVMS and 3 of those 7 are running Win2k Advanced Server, and the other 4 are running WinXP Pro, while the rest of the 19 are using WinME in the WVMS for backwards compatability issues. How many licenses will you need?
Bonus: How much will this cost including the inflation of the economy and of Microsoft's prices by the year 2004?
But I know the answer: Zero. You just need one copy of NT Server, bought retail. Use copyright law instead of agreeing to any licenses, and consider the 50 instances to be fair use.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
He's finally working on a way to port the BSOD over to Linux and OSX for us!
According to Fortune magazine, Microsoft is the 7th most admired company in America. #1 is Walmart.
"All your mullets does belong to us"
Do you 'think so'? I mean how can you be 'sure'? I suppose it might be 'true'. Don't you think you could be 'wrong', however? Just my 'two cents'.
http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares
For all the Mac paranoid out there, here's another conspiracy theory that will undoubtedly turn up on the rumor sites.
;-)
Microsoft really wants to revive, sell, and support an improved version of Connectix RamDoubler for the latest revision of Mac OS 9. Heck, they might even make it into Microsoft RamTripler (MS Ram*er for short)
Connectix stopped selling RamDoubler and promised to do away with support for it in September 2003. But an killer utility like MS Ram*er will cement the last Mac holdouts to Mac OS 9 and their old hardware.
The conspiracy has widened!
The important question is 'Does anybody care?'. Linux runs just fine on PPC hardware, as do Open and NETBSD (FreeBSD on the way). More importantly a lot of *nix apps compile and run native on OS X. The only real reason for wanting to use an x86 emulator is to run an operating system which doesn't run on your hardware, and software compiled for another platform. i.e. Closed source software. i.e. Windows and windows apps. Does anybody actually use VirtualPC to boot x86 Linux? Are there enough closed source Linux apps (or ones which for one reason or another won't run on OS X / PPC Linux) that this is actually worth anyone's while?
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at long last i will be able to get my BSOD
Oh, you want a BSOD? I have implemented a BSOD for Linux.
Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
Some of us buy the cheap-ass version with DOS and use it for DOS! Anyway...back to Settlers II...
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
take your heads off of your PCs and see this for what it could really be! yes, m$ wants to run PS 1 roms on the XBOX.
ok, well, maybe not, but its as good a reason as any for their purchase, unless they plan to fuse virtual server with windows just to make extra bloat. hmmm. i keep thinking back to Cartman's trapper keeper. microsoft insorping virtualization. . . . .
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel
This is really fucked up because I just authorized the purchase of 179 VMware licenses for the company I work for. This purchase has gone through today. We paid a ridiculous amount of money. I really hope that VMware doesn't go the way of the dodo or that's what will happen to my job. Shit.
Virtual machine software price = $800
Virtual Machine price and buying windows = $1300
Virtual Machine host OS crashing and taking out all enterprise services at once = priceless
It was going to run Windoze insanley fast!