Microsoft prepares for battle against VMWare
Microsoft is broadening its efforts in the highly technical area of virtualization — a practice that essentially decouples various parts of a computer system, including hardware and software, to give information-technology managers more flexibility. The company is acquiring San Jose, Calif.-based Calista Technologies, which works on desktop-virtualization technology. Among other moves, Microsoft is changing how it prices and licenses its software to encourage virtualization; rolling out new tools for managing virtualization in different situations; and broadening its partnerships with other companies in the area. Enthusiasm for virtualization, which has been in use for decades, has grown recently and was highlighted when VMware went public last summer in one of the most successful tech IPOs of 2007.
The Palo Alto, Calif., company’s shares more than doubled in its first two months on the stock market and finished last week at $80.27, up nearly 41 percent. It announced an acquisition of its own last week, buying Thinstall, another desktop-virtualization company. One use of virtualization involves separating the software running on a server in a data center away from the physical machine. That way, if the data center were threatened by a natural disaster, the server’s applications could be easily transmitted to a different data center out of harm’s way. Virtualization also can be used to divide a single server into individual “virtual” machines, each insulated from the other and capable of running its own operating system and application. This improves efficiency by using more of each server’s computing power, 85 to 95 percent of which goes unused in most IT departments. It will be a tough fight against VMWare though…
Source: Seattle Times
God bless Microsoft
I feel your pain….
hay Martin! get ready for a larger user alliance I passed out a SH1TLOAD of flyers about your great site at my work and at The University of Texas!!
good to see MS struggling….. its gonna take lotsa time to even get near VMware….
Yawn. Looks like someone cut-and-pasted “VMware” into one of the old “Thin clients are going to destroy MS” articles from the late 90s.
I use VMware Fusion to run Windows on my Mac.
Yeah, but MS can make a VM client that runs Windows without hiccups
way more easily than any other for obvious reasons.
I wonder about Linux support, though.
Either way, it’s good news, Microsoft is coming of age and is throwing
out nice things (http://labs.live.com/ has some nice gnarly stuff).
i thought they are going to make VMware so that we could run MacOS on windows
http://www.virtualbox.org/
what a joke. in true M$ fashion, this will only run on windows and emulate windows. You will have massive feature restrictions for bullsh*t reasons designed to srew up every other OS you have as a client or host. Then, you’ll find out that the security implementation is so poor that hackers will penetrate the sandbox and attack the host. Oh, don;t forget meaningless update cycles and versions that force you to upgrade your servers to push the sales of intel xeon cpu’s.
Prognosis: EPIC FAIL
Virtualization has been used for Decades eh? Hmmm, I don’t recall my 8088xt being virtualized.
Anyways, I had the VMware stock day one, bought at $50, sold at $70, made about 4k in 7 days, nice. Was up to $112!
The competition is great for all of us, but Vmware will win easily. Their server product, free and fully functional, kicks so much as I have deployed it full force on high end servers at clients, no issues, no problems, quick restores and recovery as well as consolidation. Its a dream come true.
MS might have a good product but so far they have licensing. Who the F is going to use it when it costs something and is inferior to VMware?
Stupid MS.
sick, VMWARE bought thinstall - maybe better support for portable - yay!
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 for me.
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jordansky
January 22nd, 2008 | 14:10
I use VMware Fusion to run Windows on my Mac.
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and it’s great!