Challenging Microsoft With a New Technology

…As VMware’s technology becomes more powerful and it adds more features to its products, it can start to supplant the operating system from below…

I know my life has been made easier by VMWare. Fighting physical complexities and costs is a breeze when you have tools like vSphere at your disposal.

I imagine PC hardware of the near future that might come right from the manufacturer with any number of operating systems available, enabled by hardware virtualization. Each of these operating systems could be running simultaneously via software preloaded on a some independent storage mechanism. We could be a hot-key combination away from each operating system, with full access to all of our hardware. Perhaps we could even stream our desktops from work directly onto this underlying host operating system.

If any of this sounds far-fetched I’ve seen demo’s of each of the technologies I’ve mentioned independently. It’s only a matter of time before they converge and form the Voltron of virtualization.

10 Interesting Google Chrome OS Mock-up Designs

…some of the best looking and interesting mock-ups, and you will be the judge if any of them can closely resemble or shall I say predict the look of the “real version” of Chrome OS once it comes out

These are all totally unofficial, but fun speculation.

Linux powers world’s fastest stock exchange

How fast is it? A Deutsche Borse representative claimed that their Linux-powered exchange software can “easily execute more than a million trades per second, dwarfing even the mighty NY Stock Exchange.”

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review

Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard has landed. This time around, Apple goes light on the glitz in favor of some heavy work under the hood. John Siracusa dives deep into Apple’s new OS offering to see what’s new, what’s still the same, and whether it’s worth upgrading.

This review requires a snickers bar.

What Was It Oracle Wants With Sun, Again?

For its fourth quarter, Sun posted a loss of $147 million, or 20 cents a share, compared with a profit of $88 million or 11 cents a share in the same period a year earlier. Revenue dropped 31 percent to $2.63 billion. Excluding special items, the company said its quarterly loss was three cents a share.