[lug] So much for VMware

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Fri Dec 1 21:51:52 MST 2006


On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:46:41PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
>Seems like a "DUH moment" to me.  And another example of Marketing 
>demands driving bad engineering.  People, trade rags, everything 
>shouting "virtualization is great!" ... then the reality starts to set in.

I don't think that's fair to say.  Virtualization *IS* great stuff.  It's
not a marketing thing, it is truely useful.  IBM mainframe geeks have known
this for like 30 years.

Thanks,
Sean
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