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VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bully-boy dept.

feminazi writes "Jeff Boles attributes VMWare's dominance over Microsoft in the virtualization market to a combination of product depth and focus, but especially to the fact that 'VMWare is actually delivering Microsoft's product in the way that Microsoft should be delivering it.' The ease of GUI but with those enterprise-ready traits that Microsoft is still struggling with: application separation, and decent resource utilization."

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  1. Re: VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > Yeah I guess that is why hotmail just shits all over gmail :)

    And MSN search vomits chairs at Google search.

  2. Obligatory arch commment by Dr.+Zowie · · Score: 5, Funny
    What we really want in the Microsoft OS, is access to some of the user tools and easy administration that comes with the GUI, while having the ability to control application separation, get better resource utilization, be hardware agnostic and stop rebuilding installs all the time...


    Oh, I get it. So what we really want from the Microsoft OS is Ubuntu.

    ...and manage the system as well as other enterprise OS's have in the past


    or, rather RHEL.
  3. Re:Eats their lunch? by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is this phrase really in common usage?

    Yes.

    It doesn't make any sense.

    Sure it does. Just because you aren't clued in to the idiomatic meaning doesn't mean it's ready to buy the farm. Not that it's a black and white issue, mind you, but frankly I could care less.

    Keep it on the black part, dude.

    KFG

  4. I have no real comment by bunions · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just wanted to say that I was giddy with glee to find that this article was tagged 'lunch'

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  5. Re:Not originally an MS product? by wbd · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't forget Windows, too...

  6. Re: VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch by Jesus_666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, VMWare is eating Microsoft's lunch (via VirtualPC), but it's then passing on some of the nutrients. Kinda.

    I'd better stop pursuing that analogy, there's a bad mental image coming up.

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