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  • Microsoft gives Linux a virtual hug

    After years of hoping to crush Linux, Microsoft is trying to show it can get along with its open-source rival.

  • AMD jockeys with Intel in software stakes

    Advanced Micro Devices will detail its "Pacifica" virtualisation technology by the end of this month, enabling software companies to start working with the feature, which makes it easier for a computer to run several operating systems simultaneously.

  • Sun builds software to slice up servers

    With its next version of the Solaris operating system, Sun Microsystems plans to take a new direction with its technology to divide a server into a large number of independent partitions.

  • Virtualisation: Is it all about the hardware, or the OS?

    The virtualisation specialists are fighting back. Companies like VMware, and more recently XenSource, got their start with standalone virtualisation software -- but Linux sellers and Microsoft, unwilling to cede their influential position selling the foundational software of a computer, are trying to make virtualisation a feature of the operating system.

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  • VMWare's virtual future

    VMware's leader discusses the hows and whys of the industry's move toward virtualisation.

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