You ARE detracting from Mr. Ritchie with your asinine commentary and total disrespect for individual accomplishment. MAYBE someone else would have come up with something similar by now but maybe it would have taken another 50 years and we'd be way behind the curve right now. MAYBE, if something similar had been developed around the same time, it would be locked up in a bottle and unavailable to the masses. Stagnation would have been wholly possible alternative reality.

I shouldn't pick on Gartner...several Microsoft spokesmen have also had quite a bit of trouble understanding their own EULAs. The virtulization sections seem quite clear, however.