From: "Geo" 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news:4381d697{at}w3.nls.net...

> I agree you need a bigger faster, better machine to run it, but the
> advantages are great if it would work for you -- I'm not saying it would
> work for everyone by any means.

Ok we no longer disagree, all I'm saying is in the web host business where
you have a lot of competition you really have to squeeze every ounce of
performance out of the machines to turn a profit.

> You don't get around much.   You wouldn't normally notice if some corp
> were running VM stuff unless they told you they were, it'd just be
machines
> in a rack from the outside.  You're also forgetting that PC's have come
late
> to the game and they are definitely not the only game in town, mainframes
> have been doing it for 20 or 30 years and even midranges are all virtual
> now.

I realize the bigger iron does this but what I've seen of businesses we
deal with (as an ISP) I never ever have seen anyone doing vm stuff except
at the desktop as a way to get multiple environments for testing purposes.
I don't think I've ever seen it in a production environment.

Most of the cost cutting I've seen is consolidation of functions, like
moving the web server and email and proxy to the same box type of stuff.

Geo.

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