nytimes.com — On Monday VMWare will release 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. "Microsoft is looking for any way it can to gain the upper hand," said Diane Greene, the president of VMware."
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desigatorFeb 27, 2007
So now, Microsoft is going to "netscape" vmware .... Their vhd test drive program is pretty sneaky, in that you can have windows based virtual appliances but run them only on microsoft virtualization software .... When vmware can run that same thing without any technical issues.
oljaituMar 1, 2007
a browser is much easier to create and give away than an Virtual Infrastructure like VMware has created, so the Netscape model does not apply in this case. VMware holds some patents in the virtualization arena (why MS tried to buy them) and now there is no one left to buy. MS has to create and engineer a technology that creates a clear division between the HW and the OS...something MS deplores as a knife to the OS licensing heart of their revenue! Virtulization will change the way an OS is written and developed in the next few years and MS fears this the most!!! Hyoervisor in 2008-09 when VMware had it 5 years ago? MS had better sharpen the Marketing Machine because technology will not do it alone...