Posted Wednesday 18th July 2007 12:14 GMT

"It seems slightly ironic that a software solution (virtualisation) may play the largest part in solving what is essentially a hardware problem."

reminds me of the old lightbulb joke:

How many hardware engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

None. "We'll fix it in software."

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David McLeman

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