Hesh Wiener

Hesh Wiener is president of Technology News of America and the original publisher of The Four Hundred. His wit and insight into the computer business have been illuminating users and frustrating vendors--who probably also learned a thing or two despite themselves--for more than three decades. Guild Companies is thrilled to have him contribute a monthly column to this newsletter, a column that we have called Mad Dog 21/21 in his honor. For those of you wondering, 20 percent alcohol is the upper limit in many states for a beverage that can still be sold as wine. Mad Dog 20/20 was a popular wine that kissed this limit, and was intended for people who were serious about getting excellent bang for their buck out of a bottle of wine. Hesh is often one step over the line, and is often a mad dog, as that title often connotes people who are passionate and boisterous about what they are thinking and saying, and more times than not are coming from a slightly different angle than the rest of us.

• Mad Dog 21/21: Virtual’s Impatience

  January 30, 2006 Hesh Wiener

  The more you know about virtualization–the ability of a computer to support working images of systems that don’t physically exist–the less sure you can be about its roots. For IBM‘s big commercial customers, virtualization arrived in the mid-1970s. Now the leader in virtualization, IBM was a laggard back then, and there is every possibility that virtualization technology from others will yet upstage Big Blue’s achievements. In computing, stardom can be as ephemeral as the theatrical ghosts of 1862, whose stunning impression on audiences set the stage for technology that first appeared nearly a century later. IBM offers virtualization technology

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