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| Perhaps the easiest way to evaluate Linux and other open source
| applications is by running them on top of Microsoft Windows. Virtually.
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| Krishnamurti said that with open source applications, the license makes
| them free. ISVs tend to tweak them, and so they just naturally gravitate
| toward a Linux strategy.
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| On the Linux and open source side of things though, the availability of
| free software from Linux appliance vendor rPath has helped the creation
| of the virtual machines.
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| Users of rPath Builder can freely build VMware images of open source
| applications that will play on the VMware player.
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