VMware, IDC play virtualization hardball
Virtualization company VMware has publicly disputed the way in which key research into the virtualization market was undertaken by analysts IDC, and disputed figures that appear to show a rapid growth by a competitive product from Microsoft.
According to the IDC research published last week, Microsoft has done well in virtualization since the launch of its hypervisor, Hyper-V.
In "its first quarter of general availability Microsoft Hyper-V delivered a strong showing, and when combined with Virtual Server 2005, Microsoft's market share is 23 percent of new shipments," according to the IDC research note.
Then in a blog posting … Read more