Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> It's the end of the line for Microsoft: sorry, Mr Gates, you've just been
> Googled
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> | The other big trend in 2007 will be 'virtualisation' - software which
> | enables a single computer to run many different operating systems
> | simultaneously. This makes sense for all kinds of reasons, but the
> | most important is that the current generation of 'server farms' which
> | power Google, Amazon, eBay, and so on are financially and
> | environmentally unsustainable. Enormous sheds filled with thousands
> | of servers consume too much power, and the only solution is to reduce
> | the number of physical machines. Virtualisation makes that possible,
> | which is why it's an irresistible technology.
> |
> | And guess what? The Vista Eula (End User Licence Agreement) contains a
> | clause which prohibits running the commonest versions of Vista under
> | virtualisation software. Wonder if Gates ever heard of Canute?
the server version of Vista must be priced differently.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/12/08/50OPenterwin_1.html
"...But wait, there's more. Redmond has also dropped the overall
price of Virtual Server to $99 for the standard R2 edition and $199 for
the Enterprise R2 edition. And there's still more! Every copy of
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition also comes with four virtual
instance licenses, which means you can be running as many as four
different virtual instances of W2k3 Server EE at any one time -- for
free. (Well, relatively speaking anyway.) ..."
Curious to know what your point is. By highlighting the pricing
difference are you conceding that Windows is superior feature and
programming wise than Linux, but that Linux is the better choice
because it is low priced and good enough for the software you want to
run on it?
and in the business world, Linux on a server is not inexpensive. IBM
does all it can to charge hundreds to thousands of dollars per year to
run Linux on its servers:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/entry/505q/91151f7l.html
-Steve
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