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    LinuxWorld: Less Fun, More Business

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    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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    August 11, 2006
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      What are you going to find, if youre determined enough to make your way through airport security over the next few days to get to the August LinuxWorld in San Francisco?

      As Peter Galli reports at eWEEK.com, the most popular buzzword is going to be virtualization.

      Thats no great surprise. This spring, at the Boston LinuxWorld, virtualization was hotter than football practice on a Texas high school field.

      Beneath all the hype and techno jargon, its really pretty easy to see why businesses want it: They want to get the most use out of todays high-powered, multicored computers.

      /zimages/1/28571.gifGuru Jakob Nielsen offers advice on designing applications for usability. Click here to watch the video.

      Take it one more step, and it all boils down to people wanting to pay the least amount possible for their enterprise computing power.

      It looks to me like theyll get it. Thats the good news. The bad news is that Im not sure any of the companies that are selling virtualization solutions, like SWSoft, VMWare and XenSource, are going to survive providing it.

      Everyone, including Microsoft, is giving virtualization programs away. Microsoft can afford to give it away. The other companies cant.

      /zimages/1/28571.gifRead more here about Microsofts virtualization giveaway.

      It doesnt help the smaller virtualization companies that several of Linuxs core developers, like Andrew Morton and Greg Kroah-Hartman, want the most important of the Linux virtualization companies, XenSource and VMware, to work together on a common interface.

      Again, this makes perfect sense for users and Linux developers, but its going over like a lead balloon at the virtualization circles.

      /zimages/1/28571.gifRead the full story on Linux-Watch: LinuxWorld: Less Fun, More Biz

      /zimages/1/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest open-source news, reviews and analysis.

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      Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
      I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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