One of the biggest advances in computer science in recent years is Virtualization Technology. Virtualization enables companies to do really cool things like reduce the number of physical servers required to support their organization by creating a “virtual” computer, and running 2, 4, 8, 16 of them on a single server!

As software developers, it is hard to accept a “sunk cost” for development. One aspect that never gets thought through, is the ability to replace something that is broken because the fear of negatively affecting the customer base due to a license outage, risk of introducing a security “hole”, or switching to something that you [...]