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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. Not originally an MS product? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    For what it's worth Microsoft Virtual Server was originally developed by Connectix, not MS. Microsoft bought it.

  2. Re:This isn't really news... by PriusFan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Disclaimer: I am a VMware employee. And I work in marketing. Please don't hurt me. Just wanted to mention that VMware Server is also free... and just as good as (better than?) MicroSoft Virtual Server.

  3. Re: VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch by Daedone · · Score: 5, Informative

    And Gmail is still invite-only.

    Not completely.

    https://www.google.com/accounts/SmsMailSignup1