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Is VMware a Dead Duck?
Nov 14, 2007, 22 :00 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (9522 reads)

(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

"Today, VMware has about 80 percent of the virtualization market. By 2011, I think it may be lucky to have 8 percent of the market.

"I believe that because everyone and their brother are now offering free or open-source virtualization of one kind or another. From the open-source world, you've got open-source software virtualization programs such as Xen OpenVZ, KVM, VirtualBox and UML (User Mode Linux) all coming on like gangbusters. And we all know what a little open-source operating system called Linux did to rival Unix/BSD operating system vendors, don't we...?"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Just because something is free doesn&#39 ...   I wouldn't count on it   
Marc Perkel
Nov 14, 2007, 22:39:01
 
I'd also count on Microsoft's ve ...   I would count on it   
Mark
Nov 14, 2007, 23:41:01
 
I don't know, perhaps this is suppos ...   Tired Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols articles...   
arnold c.
Nov 15, 2007, 00:23:37
 
VMware is now owned by EMC and will neve ...   Count on it   
Adam Poulsen
Nov 15, 2007, 05:30:08
 
What if the mother board vendors start t ...   What if....   
Woody
Nov 15, 2007, 15:35:30
 
... "kills" VMWare it's going to be  ...   If anything...   
OrlandoNative
Nov 15, 2007, 15:54:49
 
You _do_ realize that the "bare hardware ...   Re: If anything...   
Brian Wheeler
Nov 15, 2007, 18:24:18
 
Very good idea Woody!! I like it, I real ...   What if   
paul
Nov 16, 2007, 08:11:20
 
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