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VMware rains hardware deals on Microsoft's parade

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 8 comments
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VMware today inked a quartet of software deals with server giants Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Fujitsu Siemens. The agreements will infuriate Microsoft which is struggling to get its own virtualisation offering onto the market. VMware said that, under the agreement – financial terms of which remain secret – its ESX 3i hypervisor will be embedded in servers produced by the four manufacturers.

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Comments (8)

herzeleid ·
Heard from a fly on the wall in steve ballmers office:

CRASH! splinter... CRUNCH!

"I'm gonna f**king KILL vmware!"
tuxchick ·
Heh, so there's the tag line for a any product that competes with a Microsoft product: "Please- think of the chairs!"
techiem2 ·
"Every time you sell your product Steve kills a chair"
ColonelPanik ·
But...someday those chairs will strike back.
NoDough ·
Someday Steve will learn. Chair and chair alike.
tuxtom ·
He can certainly afford to destroy Herman Millers for now...but not for long!!!!
jezuch ·
"The Return of the Undead Zombie Chairs" - yes!!

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