Disclaimer (Oct ‘09): This page is a popular Google hit. I assume that’s due to significant community interest in virtualization, esp. desktop virtualization. However, this post is now only of historical value. The market has changed. The products have changed. Altiris (now Symantec) has changed its positioning and strategy significantly since this was written. For current info on Symantec Endpoint Virtualization, visit Symantec Connect.
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The title of this post is an in-joke for anyone who was at MMS yesterday and heard the SMS guys in the keynote chokin’ and jokin’ about their Softricity partnership.
Based on the independent opinion of the judges — and of every customer we spoke with in the MMS partner expo — maybe SMS picked the wrong team mates?
Wondering if Softricity will do a follow-up to this PR, letting the world know that they got a Runner-Up plaque? 
Excelsior!
Ok, listen, I know that Altiris isn’t paying me to evangelize Linux on company time, but I couldn’t let this one pass by.
Torvals patches Linux kernel, fixes broken virus
Linux creator patches Linux operating system kernel.
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service, 04/19/06
The hacker who created a widely reported cross-platform virus that could affect both Windows and Linux PCs may have inadvertently done some free bug testing for the Linux operating system. On Wednesday Linux creator Linus Torvalds said he had patched his operating system kernel to fix a bug that had been preventing the virus from running.
It’s been a crazy two weeks — I’m amazed that I got in the four short posts here. But I doubt seriously you will see anything from me, Randy or Rich until after next week. Because next week is… ManageFusion Las Vegas!
ManageFusion is Altiris’ periodic user conference (twice a year in the US, annual elsewhere). Customers, prospective customers, and partners of all kinds (along with press and analysts) come for a week of immersion in Altiris. Not just Altiris the product catalog, but Altiris the community.
However you may feel about the tone and quality of the discussion threads on Slashdot (a.k.a “/.”), the fact is that coverage there is very effective PR.
I scan the /. headlines daily, sometimes multiple times a day. While I almost never read the discussion threads, I do count on /. and The Register to help me find emerging industry info that I need to know about, and to point me to more detail. They both serve me well.
Remember how I went on about the accuracy of the recent InfoWorld review of SVS? Well, it’s happened twice more. Once in the traditional IT press and once in a blog. Amazing. Three completely technically accurate articles in one month. SVS is changing the world in ways we didn’t even anticipate! 
So here it is, Ladies and Gentlemen, my SVS Media Hall of Fame, wherein we recognize excellence in technical accuracy in IT journalism:
