VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch

feminazi writes "Jeff Boles attributes VMWare's dominance over Microsoft in the virtualization market to a combination of product depth and focus, but especially to the fact that 'VMWare is actually delivering Microsoft's product in the way that Microsoft should be delivering it.' The ease of GUI but with those enterprise-ready traits that Microsoft is still struggling with: application separation, and decent resource utilization."

Re: VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch

[TheShadowHawk]

Yeah I guess that is why hotmail just shits all over gmail :)

Re: VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch

[Tackhead]

> Yeah I guess that is why hotmail just shits all over gmail :)

And MSN search vomits chairs at Google search.

I can't believe it.

[Anonymous Coward]

:( What a bully.

Obligatory arch commment

[Dr. Zowie]

What we really want in the Microsoft OS, is access to some of the user tools and easy administration that comes with the GUI, while having the ability to control application separation, get better resource utilization, be hardware agnostic and stop rebuilding installs all the time...

Oh, I get it. So what we really want from the Microsoft OS is Ubuntu.

...and manage the system as well as other enterprise OS's have in the past

or, rather RHEL.

Re:Eats their lunch?

[kfg]

Is this phrase really in common usage?

Yes.

It doesn't make any sense.

Sure it does. Just because you aren't clued in to the idiomatic meaning doesn't mean it's ready to buy the farm. Not that it's a black and white issue, mind you, but frankly I could care less.

Keep it on the black part, dude.

KFG

I have no real comment

[bunions]

Just wanted to say that I was giddy with glee to find that this article was tagged 'lunch'

Re:Not originally an MS product?

[wbd]

Don't forget Windows, too...

Re:Eats their lunch?

[Anonymous Coward]

I may be dating myself

That's pretty much a given, on Slashdot.

Tagging system

[Geoffreyerffoeg]

Come on guys. Seriously. "Lunch"? Tagging was supposed to use humans to actually process what's important. Somehow I can't believe that slashdotters have coded a broken AI to tag articles for them.

"Lunch"? This article has anything to do with "lunch"? Give me a break.

So that's what kids call it these days?

[edunbar93]

When one company yoinks business right out from under another company's nose, then the latter company is losing.

Unless it's Microsoft. That's not called "Eating Microsoft's lunch". That's called "doing Microsoft's research for them".

Re: VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch

[Jay Carlson]

I'm sad because I don't have modpoints today. That's the funniest thing I've seen in months. I'm still giggling five minutes later.

But just try to explain it to outsiders.

"See, Microsoft had this little problem with the transition of hotmail to NT...the server smelled funny so they put it back...uh, so there's this fierce rivalry between Microsoft and Google...lawsuits...uh...developers! developers! developers!"

Yet another reason why Linux weenies aren't headlining the comedy tours this summer.

Re:Oh yeah?

[cp.tar]

So, you're saying Ballmer is a tosser?

/me ducks

I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!

[2e]

you eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
No... I...

Go Shooter!

What the hell is wrong with you?

[Builder]

You work in marketting and you say things like and just as good as (better than?) MicroSoft Virtual Server

And to make it even worse, you're saying this about a product that just wipes the floor with Virtual server. Be more positive man!

Re: VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch

[Jesus_666]

Well, VMWare is eating Microsoft's lunch (via VirtualPC), but it's then passing on some of the nutrients. Kinda.

I'd better stop pursuing that analogy, there's a bad mental image coming up.