Ingres breaks out virtual database

[dutter]

Through the use of virtualization technology, Ingres Project Icebreaker allows for the installation of a database without the need for a full-blown OS underneath it.

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[kgun]

By reading your article, I found this link, "The View Beyond Vista" via that article, that may be more interesting.

"THE IDEA OF SPLITTING THE SOFTWARE BRAIN of a single, physical computer into a number of software-based "virtual machines" has been around since IBM (IBM ) made such software available on mainframes in the late 1960s".

The new trend is:

1. Hosted applications.

2. (XML) Web Services.

3. Google Applications for your domain.

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