I was the presenter on a corporate customer webinar today where I talked about the benefits of server virtualization. I extolled VMWare as the gold-standard of virtualization. How did VMWare repay me? Well, they decided to fire CEO and co-founder Diane Greene.
Oops, bad timing I guess. I really should have spent some time surfing the tech blogs last night. I still think VMWare technology is gold but it may be a little more tarnished today.
Some analysts still feel that VMWare will retain their market share over the next few years despite growing competition — especially from Microsoft.
Others feel that the Microsoft wrecking ball is moving towards VMWare headquarters.
VMWare technology is good but it is overpriced today. Businesses will benefit greatly from the increased competition between VMWare, Microsoft, and Citrix/Sun/XenX in the next few years.
July 9, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Boss virtualization is really complicated n costly technology . I tried to grasp it but all in vain :s but thanks for sharing atleast I got to know about major market players in this filed.