It is true that virtualization technology allows businesses to do more IT functions with less IT staff.
Actually I think it allows businesses to do more IT functions with less hardware. The staff still have to manage it. Otherwise you have an excellent strategy for retirement:-)
Companies with years of ARM code will not suddenly decide to port to x86 on the off-chance that x86 will get more than a tiny proportion of the mobile phone market.
They said the same things about Apple and moto chips.
Of course, in that case, there was a single controlling power that told people how it would be. There's no "Steve Jobs" of the embedded market.
Right, but what they're talking about is having x86 chips small enough, less power hungry, and able to take the place of less powerful chips in embedded devices.
That's not any different than the windows NVidia drivers break from an update. Even if they were open sourced, the drivers would need recoded and re-released, which is exactly what happens with the closed drivers.
Open source drivers from the manufacturer are ideal, but throwing away supported binary drivers because they aren't open source is spite.
I'm not concerned that in 5 years, NVidia will fold and I'll have a bunch of useless silicon. In 5 years, every card in my machine will be worthless anyway. I can't use my nvidia AGP cards that I bought a few years ago, so I don't care if the drivers work or not. Commodity hardware is just that: commodity.
That's why I've never understood why some people say "I don't like Ubuntu but I use kubuntu". Do you hate it so much that you can't boot it and run synaptic?
Hey, check into VirtualBox. Of all the desktop VM managers, it's my favorite. It's free, lightweight, and has more features than parallels or VMware, at least as far as I've seen.
I run XP in it on my linux desktop, and it's great.
What with all the desktop VM software going around, and how simple it is to run Windows inside of Linux, Linux inside of Windows or Mac, etc etc really the only important thing is the kernel at the bottom that translates hardware to virtual software.
I wonder if VMWare is going to come out with a desktop OS equivalent to ESX? That would be cool, and give you the ability to run all sorts of incompatible software together.
/course you'd still have to crack OSX to run in the mix
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Amen. I'm in exactly the same boat.
Well, close anyway. I work on the servers a lot, but there are more servers than people. I'd still have a lot to do.
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It is true that virtualization technology allows businesses to do more IT functions with less IT staff.
:-)
Actually I think it allows businesses to do more IT functions with less hardware. The staff still have to manage it. Otherwise you have an excellent strategy for retirement
You're right. Large corporations will be the only "technology" companies to do stuff like this within 20 years.
Small companies that aren't IT based could hire a contractor to take care of it for them without any issues.
sorry, but did you just call someone a douche bag for calling it cloud computing?
What the hell is wrong with people? wow.
I'm willing to bet that if enough people write to them (or the designers) they'll fix it in a patch. They're not unreasonable people
Downloading the demo now to test it
That's why you've got to build the skyscraper next to it just as high! Duh!
/Turtles all the way down
Companies with years of ARM code will not suddenly decide to port to x86 on the off-chance that x86 will get more than a tiny proportion of the mobile phone market.
They said the same things about Apple and moto chips.
Of course, in that case, there was a single controlling power that told people how it would be. There's no "Steve Jobs" of the embedded market.
Right, but what they're talking about is having x86 chips small enough, less power hungry, and able to take the place of less powerful chips in embedded devices.
My point was that....linux is free. The kernel is not, has never and will probably never be sold. It's given away, source, binary, and all.
Yea, but although it would take awhile, the kids would eventually recover
Right!
And if there is, they get a hefty percentage of every cent that the linux kernel has ever been sold for...
Wanna bet on whether or not it "accidently" breaks enough machines to convince people to upgrade?
No, it doesn't suck. it's expensive.
And FC6 is exactly the same as RHEL5 in terms of pretty much everything, so I don't have to deal with multiple platform issues.
That's not any different than the windows NVidia drivers break from an update. Even if they were open sourced, the drivers would need recoded and re-released, which is exactly what happens with the closed drivers.
Open source drivers from the manufacturer are ideal, but throwing away supported binary drivers because they aren't open source is spite.
I'm not concerned that in 5 years, NVidia will fold and I'll have a bunch of useless silicon. In 5 years, every card in my machine will be worthless anyway. I can't use my nvidia AGP cards that I bought a few years ago, so I don't care if the drivers work or not. Commodity hardware is just that: commodity.
Aren't they working on fixing that in Vista though?
I've not touched it yet, so I don't know
I think they used it in render farms, though
'cept for the whole CS4 not coming out on Mac thing
That's why I've never understood why some people say "I don't like Ubuntu but I use kubuntu". Do you hate it so much that you can't boot it and run synaptic?
People confuse me sometimes.
That's the reason they've moved to the subscription model.
I not only pay for my RHEL licenses when I get them, I pay for them every year.
And god forbid I want to run more than 4 virtual machines, or use GFS in RHEL. Then I have to pay $1200-1500 / year for the advanced license.
yech.
I just use FC6 for all the stuff that requires clustering or VMs, since I'm unwilling to pay that kind of money for things that should be built in.
well, she said she did, but it looks like it was free. I'll have to ask her about that. It's hard to tell what she ended up buying.
My mom would be really sad that she couldn't download and install crap software all the time.
She's got to be the only person in the world that actually bought BonziBuddy.
They've got the crap powertoys addition that gives you 4 desktops, but there are some 3rd party addons that you can use.
Hey, check into VirtualBox. Of all the desktop VM managers, it's my favorite. It's free, lightweight, and has more features than parallels or VMware, at least as far as I've seen.
I run XP in it on my linux desktop, and it's great.
That's something I've thought about recently.
/course you'd still have to crack OSX to run in the mix
What with all the desktop VM software going around, and how simple it is to run Windows inside of Linux, Linux inside of Windows or Mac, etc etc really the only important thing is the kernel at the bottom that translates hardware to virtual software.
I wonder if VMWare is going to come out with a desktop OS equivalent to ESX? That would be cool, and give you the ability to run all sorts of incompatible software together.