Are the big server manufacturers going to club together and lobby the government to halt the wide-spread, immoral and illegal virtualisation of servers?

Surely, people know that it's just wrong!! How are they going to continue to fleece everyone when rampant server virtualisation is undermining the market.

It's the new servers that will suffer.

:)

lost your budget? Get Linux

lost your budget? Virtualize on Linux on existing hardware.

lost your budget? Drop redundant MS product licenses where open source products fit.

lost your budget? Drop service contracts by giving your developers OSS they can fix themselves.

lost your budget? Implement thin clients using LTSP and leave Windows only were needed.

lost your budget? Get Linux

And you know what, none of this gets counted by Gartner.