Earlier, I posted about how VMware was working with IBM.  They put out a
little document about operating system partitioning.  While the piece is
about IBM servers, the concepts still apply.  I found this reason for
operating system partitioning appropriate:

"You may have some legacy applications that require out-of-date operating
systems, or that are “ill-behaved” and will not tolerate any other software
running on the servers; perhaps they have a problem with memory leaks or
intermittent crashes, or each requires a different version of the same
Windows dynamic link library (DLL). Let’s face it, many an application
presumes that it’s the only one running on the server, and usually the
safest course is to let it have an entire system all to itself. Of course,
this approach contributes to server proliferation."

I found it interesting not so much in the DLL hell as much a way to get
newer hardware to work with older operating systems.



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