Comments on: Meet Windows 7′s Best Friend http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/15/meet-windows-7s-best-friend/ Channel News, Reseller News and Channel Partner Programs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/15/meet-windows-7s-best-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-105500 The VAR Guy Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:53:46 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=5237#comment-105500 Lawrence: Interesting thesis, but The VAR Guy wonders if most of the virtualized servers involve VMware running mix of Linux and Windows. Our resident blogger wishes he had some hard data to share with you, and you're definitely causing The VAR Guy to rethink his views on the virtualization market. Lawrence: Interesting thesis, but The VAR Guy wonders if most of the virtualized servers involve VMware running mix of Linux and Windows. Our resident blogger wishes he had some hard data to share with you, and you’re definitely causing The VAR Guy to rethink his views on the virtualization market.

]]> By: Lawrence D'Oliveiro http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/15/meet-windows-7s-best-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-105493 Lawrence D'Oliveiro Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:38:57 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=5237#comment-105493 I suspect most of that “Linux virtualization” market is Linux hypervisors virtualizing Windows guests. I suspect most of that “Linux virtualization” market is Linux hypervisors virtualizing Windows guests.

]]> By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/15/meet-windows-7s-best-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-105464 The VAR Guy Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:06:49 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=5237#comment-105464 Lawrence: Lots of virtualization in the Linux market, too... ... Red Hat's partner program has three specializations... Infrastructure (Linux), Middleware (JBoss) and Virtualization. Surely, there must be market demand if Red Hat bet 1/3 of its channel partner program on virtualization. Lawrence: Lots of virtualization in the Linux market, too… … Red Hat’s partner program has three specializations… Infrastructure (Linux), Middleware (JBoss) and Virtualization. Surely, there must be market demand if Red Hat bet 1/3 of its channel partner program on virtualization.

]]> By: Lawrence D'Oliveiro http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/15/meet-windows-7s-best-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-105448 Lawrence D'Oliveiro Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:30:56 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=5237#comment-105448 I never understood what was so fantastic and ground-breaking about virtualization. The best I can tell, it appeals to those afflicted with lots of Windows Server installations. Which in turn have proliferated because it’s not been a good idea to run multiple apps on a single Windows server, because when something goes wrong, you don’t know which app to blame. Unix/Linux servers, on the other hand, regularly handle lots of apps running on the same installation with ease. Something about open-source apps being better disciplined in control of resource usage and where they put things: the authors of such apps know they have to coexist with other apps, and there are established conventions for doing so. Not like proprietary app developers, who all believe they know better than the customer how their software is supposed to work. I never understood what was so fantastic and ground-breaking about virtualization. The best I can tell, it appeals to those afflicted with lots of Windows Server installations. Which in turn have proliferated because it’s not been a good idea to run multiple apps on a single Windows server, because when something goes wrong, you don’t know which app to blame.

Unix/Linux servers, on the other hand, regularly handle lots of apps running on the same installation with ease. Something about open-source apps being better disciplined in control of resource usage and where they put things: the authors of such apps know they have to coexist with other apps, and there are established conventions for doing so. Not like proprietary app developers, who all believe they know better than the customer how their software is supposed to work.

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