CNET: Virtualization - threat or menace?

"The Fusion release (VMWare Fusion for the Mac) is only half of the story for VMware this week.

The other half is more forward-looking. At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum described how, in the future, applications may be distributed in the form of complete virtual machines, including all the operating-system code they need. (See the PC World story, and the InformationWeek story; both are worth reading.)"

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