Response to InfoWorld's Choices on 2007's Top Technology

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Hi Dan, with all the things I've been called over the years, I appreciate you selecting "interesting person". And I'm sure your award is in the mail... somewhere.

Thanks for commenting on my Virtualization Report article. If you don't mind, I'd like to clarify something though. You said that David Marshall "comments on his choices of the best technology from 2007."

In fact, that isn't accurate. What I did was report on IDG's InfoWorld 2008 Technology of the Year awards. As I wrote:

"IDG's InfoWorld recently announced the recipients of its 2008 Technology of the Year honors, recognizing 45 products across 9 general categories. The selection process was handled by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers."

I had nothing to do with the criteria, the selection, the testing or reviewing. I am not a Test Center editor nor a Test Center Reviewer. Again, I just reported the news of the award and discussed the virtualization angle of the award. In fact, the award didn't have a "virtualization" category, rather it was a platform category that happened to have virtualization companies win, so I reported on them (I didn't cover the other 42 winners).

I don't know all the criteria other than what was reported, such as:

"The annual awards identify the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape and the winners are drawn from all of the products that have gone through the testing process during the past year, with the final selections made by InfoWorld's Test Center staff."

But I do agree with you, there is a wide variety of virtualization related companies out there, many of which are quite awesome and interesting. And I typically cover those in my Report as do you. I've been using many of these technologies for nearly a decade, and I really enjoy seeing new companies pop up with creative and innovative technologies in the virtualization space.

As to the comment about picking out a few front runners and leaving others out being a disservice to the industry, I suppose that would be said about any award, wouldn't it? I wouldn't call it a disservice though, perhaps unfortunate in some cases.

All the "Top 10" or "Top 5" articles or awards for this or that leave someone out. You yourself have spoken with over 100 companies... they can't all win. Only in the pee-wee league does everyone get a trophy.

Keep up the great work spreading the word. We need more people in 2008 to drink the kool-aid of virtualization and realize the benefits. Only 94% of x86 servers to go!

-David

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