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MS will decide nothing! Pacifica is a developer gimme, a freebie. And for those of us looking to expand our horizons in the business which supports us, its promise is less hardware we need to purchase in order to learn what we're paid to know. It means less kernel panic and less file table corruption, if it works that is.

Microshaft may rule the corporate desktop's soft content, but they are in no position to dictate to a hardware manufacturer as to the ease of portability or flexibility which they (AMD) choose to engineer into their product. Microsoft doesnt run computers, computers run software and WE choose to let the great monster rule atop the pile of hasbin 32bit hackable crap we purchase. I can honestly say that this is a market place driven by ignorant conformity to one company's overblown opinion of themselves. They are not the only game in town and its time they looked back on the nostalgic days when there was only one sorta stable OS and they sold it, to us all. It's time they coded their apps and their browsers and their OS's to be worth the money we pay. Welcome PACIFICA and the freedom you stand for. Grow up to be all you promise so that I can run reliable SW on my box!!!
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I see Hypervisor taking the market.  nucrash | 03/07/05
Microsoft will only need to support a hypervisor, not hardware.  DonnieBoy | 03/07/05
or multiple distros...  linuxoverwindows | 03/07/05
Yes, this will be great for testing, but for production,  DonnieBoy | 03/07/05
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With VMWare making  Roger Ramjet | 03/07/05
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companies going out of business  clockmendergb@... | 03/07/05
Well on a 64 Processor Server  nucrash | 03/07/05
Even better is Groupwise  htotten | 03/07/05
Dark Corner of the Universe  TheBob_z | 03/08/05
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Forget blades  Roger Ramjet | 03/08/05
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Also saves on HBAs for SAN --- $1K each...  Plain Logic | 03/07/05
Xen will be free, and faster than the current version of VMWare.  DonnieBoy | 03/07/05
RE: With VMWare making  adsanders@... | 03/07/05
Photoshop will run on both?  tony@... | 03/07/05
Contrary data point (corrected)  Joel R | 03/07/05
acrobat 6 and AMD  clockmendergb@... | 03/07/05
Until AMD publishes the specs...  Filker0_z | 03/07/05
In the Past  nucrash | 03/07/05
Contrary data point  Joel R | 03/07/05
TopView  thomasderk@... | 03/07/05
will MS allow it?  EDinNY | 03/07/05
Run more than one copy of the same OS  Prognosticator | 03/07/05
MS will have to decide that ...  George Mitchell | 03/07/05
Oh Please  SmartGuy | 03/07/05

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