Re: The One Percent Club

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Steve Richter wrote:
> I dont understand. Why and how is the i5 supposed
> to compete against VMware?

Why are you saying that I5 and Vmware are competing?  Under I5/OS I can set up 
numerous environments for hosting numerous companies, or hosting numerous 
versions of numerous applications on a single server by simply installing 
application components and data files in separate libraries and directories, 
then setting library lists and directory paths accordingly.  Unlike Windows 
application architecture, I don't need separate servers, or a product like 
Vmware to partition a server to create various development and testing 
environments.

Windows applications are notoriously unstable, and folks tend to deploy them 
across server farms now, and my guess is that partitioning a server under 
Vmware and consolidating applications would only lead to more performance 
constraints as well as instability.

Windows itself doesn't manage complex workloads, so how would it be to run two 
or more versions of Windows under Vmware on a single server?  My guess is that 
the environment would be even less stable.  Is that why they position Vmware 
for development and testing environments rather than production environments?

In contrast, I5/OS manages complex workloads, and thousands of concurrently 
running processes with stability, as a matter of routine.

My experience with partitioned I5 servers is limited, but they seem to be 
stable, at least.

Nathan.



__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com