VMware vs. Xen vs. Microsoft

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 28, 2007

“VMware owns the lion’s share of the virtualization market in
terms of both revenue (the company’s revenue doubled in 2006 to
$709 million from the year before) and mindshare (the company’s
annual user show in San Francisco this year recently drew 10,000
supporters). To ice it off, the company also had a huge IPO this
summer.

“Yet open source Xen, which doesn’t even make the single digits
on any analyst’s set of predictions, and its commercial
instantiation XenSource may still have a chance in the corporate
market. And don’t overlook Microsoft’s Windows Server
Virtualization offering either…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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