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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:This isn't really news... by Bios_Hakr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not entirely true. With the recent release of Vista Beta, I decided to try out VM Ware. Well, not really. I'd used VM Ware years before (when it was like $99) and had tried several "free" editions avalable on popular download sites everywhere. Anyway...

    So, I go the the VM Ware site and I see that what you really offer is a free "beta" edition of VM Ware Server 5.

    So, at some point, it may or may not leave beta. If it does, your keys may or may not expire. What you advertise as "free" is, in fact, a possible ticking bomb on a system.

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