SearchOpenSource: VMware Exec Sees Virtualization, Virtual Appliances Boosting Ent. Linux Adoption

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"SearchOpenSource.com: VMware takes a stance of being operating-system agnostic, but do you see a particular synergy between virtualization and Linux?

"Patrick Lin: They're very highly complementary. The first product we put out at VMware--the first version of Workstation--was actually based on Linux.

"In a lot of cases, virtualization can allow you to migrate things into a different operating system environment without a lot of risk..."

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