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Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in the IT world. Maritz didn’t actually predict that operating systems are doomed, but he did argue in his VMworld keynote that the role of [...]

Virtualization and open development frameworks are squeezing out operating systems in data centers, VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz said last week at the Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco. Though there are still operating systems underlying virtualized infrastructures, their traditional roles are being usurped by new elements that are transforming the world of IT, [...]

This just in from VMware: “Fling is defined as ‘a brief casual relationship.’” That text actually appears on a site VMware created to share internal engineering projects — software code that is interesting but not yet ready for VMware’s flagship virtualization products. [ Doing server virtualization right is not so simple. InfoWorld's expert contributors show [...]

Virtualization company VMware has reported a healthy increase in revenue for the fourth quarter, thanks largely to gains from software maintenance fees. Revenue for the quarter, ended Dec. 31, came in at $608.2 million, an 18 percent increase from the same period last year, VMware said Monday. It was also ahead of the consensus analyst [...]

VMware is poised Tuesday to further redefine its cloud strategy by buying Yahoo’s Zimbra open source messaging business in order to expand its stake in the platform-as-a-service market. Zimbra, bought by Yahoo in 2007 for $350 million, is an open source messaging platform popular on the Linux and Mac OS platforms and with universities and [...]