OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/24739/VMware_Is_The_New_Microsoft_Just_Without_an_OS Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:42:54 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Summary of the Article http://www.osnews.com/thread?473176 http://www.osnews.com/thread?473176 VMware is the new microsoft because a lot of ms veterans are working there. Mon, 16 May 2011 05:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Fergy) Comments Two things http://www.osnews.com/thread?473211 http://www.osnews.com/thread?473211 1:
With VMware holding the keys to the hypervisor layer and management, then the platform layer, and even the cloud applications layer with email from Zimbra, and presentations from Slide Rocket, why do I need Windows?

Really? Is that all the applications the author uses? or thinks businesses use?

2: Addition to the summary by Fergy: "... and because VMware is cloudy".

Not a good read. Mon, 16 May 2011 12:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vodoomoth) Comments VMware http://www.osnews.com/thread?473217 http://www.osnews.com/thread?473217 VMware isn't the next Microsoft. They have to much competition they can't strangle out with shady business practices and dirty tactics. Mon, 16 May 2011 13:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (systyrant) Comments Just being pedantic here. http://www.osnews.com/thread?473221 http://www.osnews.com/thread?473221 "VMware Is The New Microsoft, Just Without an OS"

Is the author unaware of VMWare ESX? Sure, it's used differently than *nix or windows, but it is still an operating system.

It takes over from the bios, initializes devices, manages resources, and delegates them. The main difference is that it's "userland" APIs are designed to closely mimic hardware rather than provide abstractions.Edited 2011-05-16 14:16 UTC Mon, 16 May 2011 14:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Alfman) Comments The article has a bit of false logic http://www.osnews.com/thread?473229 http://www.osnews.com/thread?473229 Just because there are ex-Microsoft employees doesn't remotely mean they're the next Microsoft.

Additionally, VMWare's licensing terms are a lot more reasonable in many aspects than Microsoft's are, and are much more small/medium business friendly (see vSphere Essentials licensing terms).

I still may need Windows Server though, since VMWare can't remotely replace the services I use under that platform, any more than it can replace Linux either. I have both platforms sitting on my network, spread over several ESX boxes, all managed from a central, remote-friendly console. Mon, 16 May 2011 14:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (polaris20) Comments Platform http://www.osnews.com/thread?473246 http://www.osnews.com/thread?473246 "With VMware holding the keys to the hypervisor layer and management, then the platform layer, and even the cloud applications layer with email from Zimbra, and presentations from Slide Rocket, why do I need Windows?"

What's the platform, Java? Why do I need Windows? Maybe to run .NET apps on top of 2008 server in the cloud?

I don't think wmvare is going to beat Microsoft, there is an intense competition: Google’s AppEngine, Microsoft’s Azure ,Rackspace’s Mosso, Amazon's EC2 and countless other smaller players. And I think Microsoft does a pretty nifty job: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/ .Edited 2011-05-16 16:30 UTC Mon, 16 May 2011 16:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twitterfire) Comments RE: The article has a bit of false logic http://www.osnews.com/thread?473349 http://www.osnews.com/thread?473349
VMWare's licensing terms are a lot more reasonable in many aspects than Microsoft's are


Except the clauses that says you can't publish benchmarks that are negative for vmware. Or did they remove those again? Tue, 17 May 2011 04:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments RE: The article has a bit of false logic http://www.osnews.com/thread?473422 http://www.osnews.com/thread?473422 Journalistic license. Used in sports all the time. The next Michael Jordan, the next Gretsky, the next Hank Arron, the next Ronaldo. Rule of thumb: if you are the next anyone, you're not. Tue, 17 May 2011 15:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments