[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Like dinosaurs in their time, the monolithic, commercial
operating systems (OSes) have ruled their world for an age. Server
virtualization has heralded a new era, however, and OSes as we have
known them probably won’t thrive in it.“As its uses continue to grow, server virtualization will pose a
major threat to the strategic position that the general-purpose
operating system has long held in the x86 software stack. In this
situation, Microsoft in particular has a lot to lose. So do Linux
and Unix vendors, but these OSes do have advantages in a
virtualization setting…”