“I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.”

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Source: Desktop_architects list, 2007.8.3 https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2007-August/002446.html

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