[Forum] A big step forward in cross-platform computing | ANN.lu |
Posted on 15-Sep-2004 22:32 GMT by Gary Goldberg | 39 comments View flat View list |
By Leander Kahney
02:00 AM Sep. 13, 2004 PT
A Silicon Valley startup claims to have cracked one of most elusive goals of the software industry: a near-universal emulator that
allows software developed for one platform to run on any other, with almost no performance hit.
Transitive Corp. of Los Gatos, California, claims its QuickTransit software allows applications to run "transparently" on multiple
hardware platforms, including Macs, PCs, and numerous servers and mainframes...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64914,00.html?tw=wn_6techhead
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Posted by noggin on 21-Sep-2004 05:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 35 (MarkTime): While that is certainly true, enhancements in technology in this area are very important commercially because of hardware consolidation, not software consolidation. The costs for a moderate server far outweigh the cost for a Windows license and even the cost of the virtualisation software itself (and that is usually pretty damn expensive, but of course you may only need one copy).
If you can virtualise many your servers on one big server, you can really see benefit financially. VMWare, etc. is currently enjoying something of a revolution with big companies wanting to do this.
Anyway, I suspect you knew this, but this is important to highlight too. |
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Comment 38 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 21-Sep-2004 08:11 GMT |
Comment 39 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 21-Sep-2004 08:24 GMT |
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