OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
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David M Williams
Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:23
Using technology obtained in the acquisition of Trango Virtual Processors in October 2008, VMware MVP is intended to help handset vendors reduce development time, and to get their mobile phones to market faster.
Additionally, VMware say, end users will benefit by being able to run multiple profiles on the same phone – for instance, one for personal use and one for work use.
Fundamentally, VMware MVP is a thin layer of software embedded on a mobile phone which will separate applications and data from the underlying hardware just as VMware’s full-blown products separate operating systems and file spaces from underlying hardware.
VMware MVP will be optimised so it runs efficiently on mobile phones, with their limited memory capacity and requirement for low power consuming applications.
The pitch to handset vendors is just as virtual machines make it dead easy for a server administrator to cut over virtual machines from one underlying physical server to another so too it will be a snap for mobile phone makers to produce applications and operating systems which don’t have to care what the underlying hardware is.
Like VMware for servers, the operating system will simply “see” a generic set of drivers and targets those. It’s up to the VMware layer to implement the genuine hardware interfacing across all possible target chipsets.
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