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[News] VMWare: Windows is Doomed, FOSS+VM Will Win

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Windows will be killed by virtual appliances: VMware exec

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| Large commercial operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, will no
longer exist within five to ten years, according to a senior VMware executive. 
| Instead there will only be very thin open source operating systems supporting 
| virtual appliances.  
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19483/1168/

Dell is already preparing to do this (links below).


Earlier:

Evidence mounts for August Eee PC carnage with $299 Dell E launch

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| For that price, assuming everything we've heard so far is correct, you'll get
| an instant-on Linux distro running atop Intel's 1.6GHz Atom processor, a
| 1,024 x 600 display, 3x USB, a wee SSD, integrated webcam, WiFi, and more in
| a 0.82-1.22-inch thick sled weighing about 2.2-pounds.
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/15/evidence-mounts-for-august-eee-pc-carnage-with-299-dell-e-launc/
http://tinyurl.com/5n7zef


Recent:

SplashTop Linux On HP, Dell Notebooks?

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| Days after we delivered that inaugural review, we found out DeviceVM was in
| talks with OEMs about shipping SplashTop on desktops and notebooks.
|
| [...]
|
| In addition to the instant-on Linux excitement this week for the HP Envy 133,
| Dell is apparently working on a similar Linux solution. Engadget has shared
| details surrounding the Dell E and E Slim.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=splashtop_voodoo&num=1


Related:

Dell Creating Consumer PCs Complete with Virtualization

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| And in a similar fashion to what Parallels and VMware Fusion did for the 
| Intel-based Mac community, this could give the Linux operating system a boost 
| from consumers who want to use the open source software but don't want to 
| lose out on what Microsoft's Windows platforms offer.   
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2007/08/dell_creating_c.html


Dell considers bundling virtualization on motherboards

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| It's one of those ideas that you read and say to yourself, "Why didn't I 
| think of that?" 
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070808-dell-virtualization-on-motherboards.html


Linux and virtualisation are ideal partners: Dell

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| Virtual machines are easier to build if you are running Linux, according to 
| Dell's chief technical officer Kevin Kettler. 
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Linux-and-virtualisation-are-ideal-partners-Dell/0,130061733,339281023,00.htm


VMware Predicts Death To Operating Systems

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| Mendel Rosenblum envisions a world run by virtualization appliances where 
| software makers wouldn't need a bulky or complex OS. 
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201311257


Dell Hoping Hypervisor Will Open Up Desktop Linux Market 

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| Plenty of vendors are jumping into the virtualization marketplace, so it will 
| be interesting if Dell is able to garner a following with this approach, 
| especially if the sole purpose is to help break open the enterprise Linux 
| market.   
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http://www.networkcomputing.com/channels/storageandservers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201311298


Dual Booting Windows-Linux: The Dell Option

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| Generally when a company is considering an upgrade to new workstations or 
| notebook computers, they will elect to use Microsoft Windows. Not out of love 
| for the operating system, rather out of understanding for the importance of 
| familiarity and compatibility with the existing office ecosystem. Sounds like 
| a good approach, until the ecosystem breaks down with a security breach 
| targeting the OS used almost exclusively by the business in question.     
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3693581


Microsoft Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux

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| Microsoft will not allow Windows Vista or Windows XP to be virtualized on top 
| of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director of Microsoft's open-source software lab, 
| said at the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here Aug. 7.  
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168183,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594


Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says  

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| For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after 
| deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author,  
| entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as 
| saying, "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your 
| Windows box, you just have to work on it."   
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168426,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616


Dell to stuff hypervisors in flash memory

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| Dell CTO Kevin Kettler today confirmed these plans during a speech here at 
| LinuxWorld, saying the company expects to see major performance and 
| power-saving improvements by dumping a hypervisor in flash. Customers will 
| basically "boot to a virtual machine-ready" state, he said.   
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/dell_hypervisor_flash/


Dell plans virtualization-oriented server

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| Any new x86 server can run virtualization software, but Dell plans to 
| release a model that's geared specifically to those drawn to the newly 
| mainstream computing trend, CNET News.com has learned.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6169830.html


Virtualization: Linux's killer app

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| Think about it. Even Microsoft supports running Linux on its Virtual
| Server product. Why would it do that? Wouldn't an OS partitioning
| technology, such as that used by OpenVz or Sun Solaris, be more in
| keeping with the kind of homogeneous environments that Microsoft
| would like to see? Why would Microsoft invest its resources to
| support a virtual machine technology that can only open the
| door to Linux in the datacenter?
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/19/08OPopenent_1.html
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