Coolest thing... SCO on 2003 server!

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:20:43AM -0500, Chris Rendall wrote:
> VMware has a product a product called ESX Server that runs on the bare
> metal and you install your virtual machines on top of ESX Server.  The
> speed is very fast and you can expect to get 5-7 virtual machines per
> CPU.  I'm currently working on a project to consolidate the number of
> servers we have, including my UNIX box running filePro, onto a virtual
> machine.  The performance is amazing and the amount of money saved by
> reducing the number of physical machines is surprising.

And, of course, if you're really motivated, it's no particular problem
to run 10 or 20 thousand virtual linux machines on an IBM mainframe
these days... I saw one go on eBay once for $1500.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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