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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. 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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  2. 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?