By Kurt Seifried (kurt@seifried.org)

A week ago I read an article with the title “BEA adopts virtual strategy with VMware” that changed my world, and just might change yours.

For those of you living under a rock, or chained to an old mainframe in the server room VMware is a suit of software tools, and now an OS in it’s own right that can run other operating systems within virtual containers. They have since been pushing hard into the application space. Application vendors such as Oracle and BEA largely view operating systems as a necessary evil. They generally don’t care what operating system you run the software on, insomuch as they have to support it, and that’s a pain in the *&%. Until now.

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