With the bold goal of making traditional operating systems all but disappear, VMware details its virtual datacenter OS, aka VDC OS. Neil McAllister looks past the hype surrounding VDC OS and finds “a fascinating concept” that “could have significant implications for application developers and customers alike.”“In VMware’s idealized datacenter, applications don’t exist in the traditional sense as processes running on specific CPUs, each with its own dedicated memory and storage space,” McAllister writes in VMware proposes a new kind of OS. “Instead, they are reduced to ‘application workloads,’ defined by the malleable but finite quantities of compute resources needed to execute their individual roles.” Software Development