Another Missed Ball: No .NET Application Container

David Laribee just referenced my IIS 7.0: Too Little, Too Late? post and he made an interesting comment that I hadn’t previously pondered but that is very relevent: It’s a major bummer that there’s no such thing as a virtualized “.NET Application Container” for the new scalable grid computing and provisioning services coming out (Amazon …

The Virtualization Wars Begin: Microsoft Virtual Server is Free!

It’s nice to be correct. Or at least to suggest something that Microsoft ends up doing.  :)  A few months back I suggested Microsoft give away Virtual Server, and today they are announcing just that! Good deal.  Let the virtualization wars begin! :) P.S. Now if Microsoft would just support the VMware hard disk format, …

Next Generation Demo Software with VMware Player

I just spotted the new free VMware Player.  This is totally cool.  I can envision companies using VMWare Player to demo complete environments, like an ASP.NET & SQL Server Express application; just configure the virtual machine to have everything needed! This basically eliminates most potential configuration problems that could cause a vendor to loose a …