Everyone is patiently waiting for 2 major releases this spring, both of which we know now are not going to happen. The first release is Apple’s next version of OSX, named Leopard. The second major release is Microsoft’s Virtualization for Longhorn, named Viridian. Now each company has made public reasons why they are being held up, but I have the real reasons.

Microsoft publicly said “The primary drivers (behind the delays) are around meeting our internal goals for performance and scalability.” They expect to be able to scale out to 64 processors, and have the ability to hot swap Ram, CPU’s, storage and networking. Perhaps they have set their goals too high and should just get something out the door into a public beta, but they can’t risk delivering a product short of breath taking to compete with VMware.

Apple, on the other hand, stated “that software engineering and QA testing for the upcoming iPhone have caused delays in the release schedule of Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard.” Maybe they should hire some more people? Simple solution, they are going to need people to work on 10.5.1 and iPhone 2.0, so why not get the staff you need for both camps in house now before they get stuck in another round of delays.

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Sources:
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/apple_os_x_105_.html
http://www.computerworld.com/…&articleId=9016381&intsrc=hm_topic
http://blogs.technet.com/…/Viridian-and-Virtual-Server-Timing-Updates.aspx