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VMware-Microsoft Battle Looming

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the he-who-controls-the-iron dept.

An anonymous reader writes "VMWare released a white paper detailing its concerns with license changes on Microsoft software that may limit the ability to move virtual-machine software around data centers to automate the management of computing work. Two choice quotes: '"Microsoft is looking for any way it can to gain the upper hand," said Diane Greene, the president of VMware.' And, '"This seems to be a far more subtle, informed and polished form of competitive aggression than we've seen from Microsoft in the past," said Andrew I. Gavil, a law professor at Howard University. "And Microsoft has no obligation to facilitate a competitor."'"

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  1. No VMs? Fine. by bmo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Then I guess Ballmer sees no profit in people running Windows in Parallels, either.

    Isn't one customer's money as good as another? I guess not.

    The management of Microsoft is so myopic and short sighted they can be declared legally blind.

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    BMO

  2. Re:It's Microsoft being themselves by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Go lookup WCF. In a league of its own, all the Java vendors are trying to play catchup.