VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

"It would not be an exaggeration to say that yesterday was a very bad day for VMWare.

"My friend and fellow tech blogger colleague at ComputerWorld, Steven J Vaughn-Nichols, thinks the company will be down for the count when they take their next hit, that essentially, the company should be treated like the walking dead. As he sees it, Open Source hypervisors and Microsoft's Hyper-V will sweep away the market share of their overpriced ESX Server bread and butter product, and the company will quickly become a has-been..."

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