While VMware execs say that within 5-10 years Windows and other commercial operating systems will be supplanted by very thin open source OSes on virtual appliances, David Marshall fires a barrage of questions back at VMware.
Such as: Where does VMware's new product fit within this world of virtual appliances only -- a world where the operating system is obsolete?
"Don't get me wrong, I believe virtual appliances have a place in this world. I myself have used them in the past to get something up and running quickly. And I've been drinking the Kool-Aid about virtualization a lot longer than most people," Marshall writes in this Virtualization Report post. "I'm just not ready to join [VMware] on the leap of operating system death."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 21, 2008 11:07 AM
![[VoiceIndigo Mobilize - Listen to podcasts on your mobile phone]](http://www.voiceindigo.com/ht/images/mobilize_logo_sm.gif){kind=logo}
