Another thread about bare metal reminded me of this...

I see more and more that the term "bare metal" is being appropriated by the cloud industry, to refer to physical servers in data centers that are dedicated to a single customer. In other words, there is no sharing of servers through virtualization - the customer has physical servers that are theirs, and theirs alone. 

The customer has full access, starting with "bare metal", and thus can install their own operating system, and work up from there. It is much different than the traditional cloud service model.

If there is a fight over the term "bare metal" between embedded and cloud, I think I know who will win :)
Those IT guys are still trying to steal "network analyzer" from the RF dudes.