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Mixing metaphors

I worked for many years as a CAD/CAM sysadmin. The only reason that my users had more than one computer on their desk was because the CAD/CAM workstation was a UNIX box, and they were required to used Windoze for their OA stuff - thus a second computer.

In those days, multiple OS meant Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and IRIX. Certain apps were only supported on certain OSes. On occasion someone would need more than one UNIX workstation - but usually it was easier to just borrow one from someone that wasn't in for the day.

If you could have all of THOSE UNIX OSes in one box - it would be useful. But if you are using an Intel Xeon, you are limited to x86 OSes. There are only 3 of those that are "mainstream" - Windoze, Linux and Solaris.

Most of the vendors that used to write applications for UNIX workstations have moved to Windoze. Sun is the only vendor left that makes UNIX workstations - IBM and HP have dropped them. There are no CAD/CAM apps that are EXCLUSIVELY available only on Solaris x86 or Linux, so what is the use of running multiple OSes for CAD/CAM?

Once again, there is ONLY ONE good reason for running virtualization - which is for isolated development environments. And the "good" reason is that you can quickly create server instances for development work. I don't see any need for creating VMs on the client - you already HAVE your development platform, why do you need more?

Be careful if you reply, you KNOW I'm waiting to pounce on your weak-@ss reasoning . . .

Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 04/02/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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