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VMware: Another Netscape?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the into-the-fold dept.

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?"

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  1. Great... by vinsci · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...now we can have a tail-recursive win32 delay loop.

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  2. Here's the headline: by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft To Buy Connectix To Enter Server Consolidation Market

    Assimilation to be announced Thursday

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  3. How will this be licensed? by mmacdona86 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you are running 50 instances of NT Server on a single box, how many NT licenses do you need?

    1. Re:How will this be licensed? by ehiris · · Score: 3, Funny

      50+1

    2. Re:How will this be licensed? by satterth · · Score: 5, Funny
      If you are running 50 instances of NT Server on a single box, how many NT licenses do you need?
      Oh my lord...

      Virtual Processor license here we come.

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    3. Re:How will this be licensed? by Greedo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Some people can barely get one instance of NT Server running on their box.

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    4. Re:How will this be licensed? by adamruck · · Score: 2, Funny

      I would say anywhere from 30-40 becuase the other 10-20 are frozen at any given moment in time.

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  4. You know... by Kappelmeister · · Score: 4, Funny

    that they're just trying to find some way to make it look like typing "ls" on a Linux shell gives you a BSOD.

  5. Excuse me by OYAHHH · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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  6. PSX emulation! by gpinzone · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's wrong with this? Now maybe we can finally get a PlayStation emulator built into Windows.

  7. You're fscking kidding right?? by LordYUK · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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  8. We did this in high school by Adam9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

    1. Re:We did this in high school by medscaper · · Score: 2, Funny
      How many licenses will you need?

      This is a trick question.

      Everyone knows that WVMS running within WVMS would create, as authorities put it, "A Great Deal of Fire".

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    2. Re:We did this in high school by Xenographic · · Score: 2, Funny

      Depends on the processor speeds... Some of them run so fast, they'll need an extra license because they're doing as much as two computers :]

  9. Trick Question! by Sloppy · · Score: 3, Funny
    If you are running 50 instances of NT Server on a single box, how many NT licenses do you need?
    Great trick question!

    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.

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  10. Bill's a nice guy! by Cheap+Imitation · · Score: 4, Funny
    What a great thing for him to do!

    He's finally working on a way to port the BSOD over to Linux and OSX for us!

  11. Re:It will have an effect in server rooms. by dpete4552 · · Score: 2, Funny

    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'.

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  12. Bigger Mac Trouble Than You Think by buckhead_buddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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! ;-)

  13. No x86 Linux on the Mac? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  14. Re:makes you wonder... by kasperd · · Score: 2, Funny

    at long last i will be able to get my BSOD

    Oh, you want a BSOD? I have implemented a BSOD for Linux.

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  15. Re:makes you wonder... by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some of us buy the cheap-ass version with DOS and use it for DOS! Anyway...back to Settlers II...

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  16. just to point out the unsaid by kraksmoka · · Score: 3, Funny
    people. you may have forgotten already, but Connectix also made the Virtual PlayStation emulator for the Macintosh.

    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. . . . .

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  17. I think this is somewhat unfortunate. by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  18. Re:makes you wonder... by Radical+Rad · · Score: 2, Funny

    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

  19. Re:makes you wonder... / Palladium? by EminenceFront · · Score: 2, Funny
    M$ bought VPC because they got wind that Apple was working closely with them to make VPC the "redbox" under IBM's 970 chip.

    It was going to run Windoze insanley fast!