Virtual Toast

Brought to you by the ever frothy SJVN, but I thought we’d bypass him for once and go to the idiot source.

It’s short, but oh, so FUDular:

• Ex-Microsoft exec pronounces death of operating system.
• OK, not death: “changing role.”
• “Hardware is going to virtualization and the role of abstracted services to applications is going to new frameworks.” (No, I don’t have a clue either.)
• VMware has all the virtualization software and application framework components needed in the third era of computing.
• OS gone? An obvious conclusion.

Unspoken in this drivel is what, precisely, is supposed to “take the place” of what, for the sake of argument here, we will call “the thingie that runs the computer.” Crusty old guys who don’t jive with the VM homies might call that “an operating system.”

Why is that unspoken? Because the unspoken assumption — and, seriously, there’s not even the allusion — is that this will be Linux. Why is that not alluded to? Because, once you specify Linux, the whole stupid argument falls apart like a pack of cards in a snow-storm.

Now, many of you will be asking, why oh why oh why did an ex-Microsoft exec come out with this crap? Beats me. Quite possibly, he’s misquoted. But even if he’s accurately on the record, this couldn’t possibly have anything to do with Hyper-V technology, could it?

I mean, it’s not like Microsoft do anything other than produce instantly obsolete operating systems.

And it’s not like there are other virtualisation systems out there (like Xen) that VMWare need to grab headlines off.

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And while we’re on the subject, here’s SJVN’s recent post on why nobody should care about VMWare anyway.