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VMware to Face Citrix/XenSource Challenge

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Aug 17, 2007

“It seems like only yesterday that I was saying VMware’s IPO
made no sense to me. Oh, wait, it was just yesterday.

“One of the big reasons for my dismissal of VMware’s business
chances was that I looked at all the open-source alternatives to
VMware’s flagship programs–Xen, OpenVZ, KVM, VirtualBox and UML
(User Mode Linux)–and I didn’t see a long, happy future for
VMware’s proprietary offering…”

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