Appliances are typically created by specializing and repackaging general purpose technologies to make a particular system easier and cheaper than the "Build your own" alternative. When the authors think "Appliance", the authors tend to think of a hardware gadget, the vast majority of which also include software. Herein it argues that the on-going commoditization of computation and storage has progressed to the point that more server software is going to be packaged as software appliances - software that is ready to simply "Drop" onto the "Raw iron" of an unconfigured server machine or the abstracted computing platform of nowadays virtualized blades and network-attached storage. Indeed, software appliances will prove crucial to realizing the benefits of virtualized computing.
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