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Virtualization.info reports that Mendel Rosenblum has also left VMware after Diane Greens departure in July. Interesting times for VMware certainly.

Brokenkode.com is now powered by Habari. About freaking time, Khaled! Seriously, Khaled has a nice writeup outlining his views on the current state of Habari market penetration.

Khaled, pls, get your themeing on!

Microsoft did something good today. Today's press release announcing the new and updated licensing schemes for server products running in virtualized environments brings them right back into touch with their customers and with their own Hyper-V virtualization technology they frankly had no choice.

The new licensing scheme basically allows migrations between physical hosts, without having to license each of the hosts as well. In an enterprise setting this is how it has to be, and I sincerely doubt that anyone has really handled this differently before, regardless of the licensing limitation that has been in place until now.

The press release also mentions that extended support for their server products running in virtualized environments, as long as the virtualization vendors validate their products through the Server Virtualization Validation Program

Well done Microsoft. even though it's about time you got it right.

I've been running Windows Server 2008 as my main OS for my laptop or a while now and I'm still very happy with it.

Running it as a desktop OS requires a few configuration changes from the default install, and there is now a Windows Server 2008 Workstation Converter application available that does the tweaks for you. I haven't tested it myself yet, but it looks promising. Check it out!

A long time ago I submitted my photoblog site to Coolphotoblogs and subsequently forgot about it. Today I got an email telling me that the site had been approved for listing. Very cool, and I'm anxious to see what kind of rating the site gets. Please check out Opticalpork and it's Cool Photoblogs profile page.