[Eighty-eight percent of respondents said they plan to evaluate, deploy or increase their use of virtualization software within Linux operating systems over the next 12 to 24 months, while nearly half of the participants stated that the move to virtualization is accelerating their adoption of Linux.]
Good news and bad news. The good news is that virtualization is driving Linux adoption. The bad news is that virtualization IS TOTALLY STUPID! I've written at length about this facade so I won't rewrite all of that here. Suffice to say, virtualization is good for development/ad-hoc deployments and NOTHING else (WRT Linux). It's a mainframe technology trying to turn Linux into a mainframe . . .
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