Since Microsoft is movign forward cloud centric approach to offer servcies to end users and encouraging cusotmers to do the same. Most of the production systems will be in hetrogenous environments. The below mention articles show how well Microsoft understand and how they shaping to the changes and trying to be innovative and strategic.
http://mcpmag.com/articles/2011/09/28/opennebula-to-support-windows-server-hyper-v.aspx
Cheers,Susantha
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