4 Reasons for VMware Not to Fear Microsoft
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| How many things can one company do especially well? And how good is any one
| of the company's 'solutions' when the company has no consistent corporate
| raison d’etre? Microsoft runs the peril of confusing itself more than being a
| confident competitor. It lumbers now, as it always has, with its me-too
| products.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/58825-4-reasons-for-vmware-not-to-fear-microsoft
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VMWare: Coming Out of the Cloud?
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| As Red Hat and other vendors seek to encroach on VMWare’s territory using
| Xen, KVM and a variety of other open source tools, the virtualization giant
| will be pushed to seek opportunities to differentiate and innovate. While the
| Xen release is not comparable with VMWare on a feature/function basis,
| there’s little debate that the technology is maturing rapidly and becoming a
| more viable option for real production workloads. Or don’t you think EC2
| qualifies as a real production workloads?
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/12/07/vmware-coming-out-of-the-cloud/
Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features
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| The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor
| technology to try to stick to its schedule of releasing the
| technology within 180 days of completing its Windows Server
| "Longhorn" operating system, due to be finalized before the
| end of the year.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6182852.html
More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing
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| "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista
| operating system is set to be rewritten..."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=30516
Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
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| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125
MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
Developers
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| "With Alchin retiring, MarkL and MarkZ, two of the most talented
| architects in MS already having left, the picture gets really
| ugly for the Windows division," my friend claimed, and the BV's
| core team members, Ian McDonald, Jack Mayo, Todd Wanke, Clyde
| Rodriguez and others are starting to connect the dots.
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| [...]
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| He concluded ominously. "A trainwreck of biblical proportions looms.
| Pick a good seat on the sidelines, trainwrecks this large take
| awhile to complete. Vista may be the last MS OS for some time to
| come, especially if Cutler decides to play hardball."
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http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/09/11/ms-insider-the-office-crew-isnt-smart-enough-to-supplant-real-windows-developers/
http://tinyurl.com/35eqrt
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