http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=21573
Tony Iams, senior analyst with research firm Ideas International Inc., said virtualization “weakens the importance of OSs for managing hardware,” which is a major development because “you can potentially get greater flexibility for managing workloads. In a way, that makes the OS no longer quite as important.”
Very interesting article and an interesting topic, as we move further towards virtualization the operating systems’ interaction with the hardware is of less significance, and I wonder if this in turn affects the important of it.
The challenge to the OS is that vmware is doing everything that it’s supposed to, windows/linux is now only the seat for the application, I wonder how long it will take for vmware to replace the seat with a cushion, a windows/linux light kind of thing, where the OS is there but only the processes, the parts needed for my application….
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