Many, if not most, organizations limit the number of applications on their servers to a single application. This is especially true in the Windows Server environment where it is very rare to find businesses running multiple applications on a single server.

Back to the Future of Server Sharing

Originally computers were very large and expensive, meaning that companies had to share their costly investments across many business units. These computers typically ran mainframe operating systems like IBM's MVS, or Digital Equipment Corp.'s (now HP's) VMS/OpenVMS and VMscluster platforms. It was not uncommon to have hundreds of applications on these servers, with thousands of users.

But the important facets that allowed these platforms to be successful running so many applications is their reliability: both reliability of the hardware as well as the operating systems. Another critical aspect that allowed them to work so well in this environment was their ability to share the limited resources available. There were many features to allow companies to manage and control resource consumption.

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