| This IDC study defines virtualization technology and details why it is emerging and its various forms and goals. In addition, the study examines why many types of virtualization may expand the use of Linux.
Because virtualization isolates the application from the underlying operating system, the implication is that as the degree of application virtualization increases, the value of the operating system decreases. This suggests Linux will become more important.
Combined revenues of virtualization software are currently roughly equivalent to those of operating systems, and OS revenue will decline as a percentage of the total of these categories.
"As the degree of application virtualization increases, so the value of the operating system tends to decrease," said Paul Mason, group vice president, Infrastructure Software Research.
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