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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. 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 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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    2. 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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  3. 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.

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

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

  5. 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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  6. 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?

  7. 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!

  8. 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! ;-)