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Sil­icon Val­ley Sleuth writes a short art­icle on the appear­ance of VMware at WWDC. It’s about more than just the desktop OS.

Here is another pie-in-the-sky, non-desktop scenario:

• Apple releases new ver­sions of both their Xserver and the MacOS X Server.
• Xserve becomes a tested and sup­por­ted plat­form for VMWare Server and more import­antly VMware’s ESX Server. This will per­mit new Intel-based XServes to be installed into Data­cen­ters with their heads held high. VMware endorse­ment is cred Apple needs to go to the next rev­enue level with their servers.
• An imple­ment­a­tion of Leo­pard­ized MacOS X Server will run on non-Apple hard­ware on VMware. This is a counter-punch to the recent Xen/Microsoft/VMware wrangling. Now MacOS X Server can run on a stable and sup­por­ted plat­form (VMware ESX) rather than the mul­ti­tude of hard­ware con­fig­ur­a­tions found in the Intel world.

So, what’s the net-net of this? Apple has VMware sup­por­ted as an applic­a­tion on MacOS X desktop; endorse­ment of their blade server envir­on­ment and more sales of MacOS X Server without the sup­port hassles.

VMware gets unique and in-demand server OS with excel­lent cor­por­ate sup­port. Rather than IS man­agers adopt­ing the Linux/Intel “build it your­self” approach; a sup­por­ted plat­form is important.

It is not so much about the desktop, but the server.

The next few days will be very interesting!

WWDC 2006 is going to be fun:

• Par­al­lels
• VMWare
• Is Microsoft going to show any­thing? Vir­tu­alPC for Intel Mac has been prom­ised … I ima­gine there is a couple of engin­eers some­where locked up for the weekend…