VMware Feels the Heat from Microsoft
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SAN FRANCISCO - VMware(VMW Quote) got hammered again Friday by Microsoft's(MSFT Quote) early release Thursday of its virtualization product.
Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization, which has been available in beta, was released to market Thursday for its Windows Server 2008. VMware promptly fell 5.2% and continued its descent Friday, dropping 8.7% to $53.80 before recovering to trade at $55.50, for a two-day drop of $6.68, or 10.7%.
Virtualization enables corporate IT departments to run multiple operating systems and computer programs on a single server, drastically cutting their hardware needs and reducing power consumption.
Virtualization management tools also enable IT managers to increase the availability of software applications and simplify data backup and recovery. In the future, managers will begin virtualizing desktop computers as well. ...
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