At VMworld 2006, one of the takeaways from the event was that the operating system shouldn't matter. BEA Systems is taking that to heart, and in fact, they seem to be cutting out the operating system ...

(1) A synonym for a language interpreter. See interpreter, Java Virtual Machine and Python. (2) Software that enables a different operating system and applications to run in a computer along with the ...

What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine (VM) is software that runs programs or applications without being tied to a physical machine. In a VM instance, one or more guest machines can run on a ...