| VMware's CEO Promises To Play Nice With Microsoft And Xen |
| Tuesday, 31 January 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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"Microsoft and XenSource - VMware's two main competitors - will likely struggle to grab serious server virtualization market share anytime soon. Microsoft has warned that it plans to phase out its current Virutal Server product in favor of a new software package due in the server version of Windows Vista - sometime after 2007. Meanwhile, XenSource is working to get its open source wares onto the market and to create complementary, for-profit products. The start-up has yet to announce a single customer as compared to the thousands VMware can point to." "The Register recently sat down with VMware's CEO Diane Greene and asked her to discuss how the virtualization market will evolve in the coming years. How will VMware fend off these attacks and defend its pricing? In addition, we asked Greene to explain how VMware expects to remain nimble inside of EMC. Wouldn't it be smarter or at least more lucrative for investors to have EMC spinout VMware and do an IPO? As always, Greene provided frank responses." Read the interview here.
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