Always a pleasure to read Mark's articles (7 years now...) I wish he wrote as freqently as before.
As a Corporate IT Infrastructures manager, I highly agree with Mark. Our business is making the business (And thus the IT Systems) work 24X7 as much as we possibly can using technological means. What customer will put his/her datacenter, With hundreds of thousands, or maybe more, of Dollars spent in high availability systems - Not to mention the cost in productivity loss or other reputation/business los, For a "solution" that isn't complete, Other for the IT guys to play with ? Unless something have changed during my night sleep, Server virtualization is a SERIOUS thing, Involving serious investments and costs / Benefits, That affect the entire enterprise. Small business choose and invest in very large VMWare ESX projects, and except high-available systems. This is not a Desktop OS or a Document authoring application. This is Serious - And no sane organization or IT manager, Who SERVERS THE BUSINESS NEEDS AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND will choose Viridian without High Availability feature (Not mentioning the lack of hot CPU addition or RAM Upgrades). Microsoft should understand (And better sooner than later) that "Being There" Might do the Hypervisor technology harm , Since people will obvously have a very negative opinion on the product after this and will not purchase it when it will be shipped fully...

--Sharon

Sharon10/3/2007 8:32:00 AM