Microsoft, Novell Expand Linux Virtualization, Sep 11, 2008

One of the cornerstones of the landmark interoperability deal between Novell and Microsoft was, and is, virtualization.

My wife often rolls her eyes at me, because once I find a new hobby I latch onto it as though life depended on it. The more arbitrary the nature of the hobby, the less she's impressed with it. So imagine her immense delight when, a year ago, the only thing I would talk about with her was Linux.

The $10 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project which fired its first shot yesterday around its 27km circuit, runs Linux.

Imagine a world without Linux. There'd be no cute Tux penguin or any notion of software freedom day. Netbooks would not have come about. But more strikingly, there wouldn't be the modern powerful tools that Windows systems administrators have come to love. That's right; Linux is keeping Microsoft honest and I'm going to expose the new Windows Small Business Server for what it is, along with those who resell it.

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