The New York Times/CNET News: A Software Maker Goes Up Against Microsoft

“VMware, a young Silicon Valley company, is the early leader in
a fast-growing market for what is called virtual-machine software.
And that puts it on a collision course with Microsoft, the
industry’s Goliath.

“A virtual machine essentially mimics a computer so that several
copies of an operating system–say, Windows or Linux or both–can
run on one physical machine. It allows computing chores to be done
on fewer computers, using less electricity and taking up less
space, promising a way to control costs at corporate data centers
straining to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of the
Internet age…”

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