Do We Need Operating Systems?
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| "Software appliances are sounding the death knell for the general
| purpose OS," says Billy Marshall, who worked at RedHat in Raleigh
| before founding rPath. "Historically you have to port applications
| with each new release. With Xen they can just wrap them up as
| virtual appliances and deploy onto RHEL 5 without being compatible."
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=968
SharePoint: The next big 'operating system' from Microsoft?
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| Ballmer also provided one of the most succinct definitions of
| SharePoint Server I've heard from any Microsoft exec. SharePoint
| is just like Office; it's a bunch of point products gathered
| together into a suite. Although Microsoft is not fond of calling
| out the six or so servers that comprise Office SharePoint Server,
| it is a bunch of server apps loosely joined.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=327
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