02/26: VMware Charges Microsoft With "Trying to Restrict Customers’ Flexibility and Freedom to Choose Virtualization Software"
Posted by Patrick
They've posted a white paper on their site describing their claims.
Via Mary Jo Foley.
Microsoft is trying to restrict customers’ flexibility and freedom to choose virtualization software by limiting who can run their software and how they can run it. Microsoft is leveraging its ownership of the market leading operating system and numerous applications that are market leaders in their respective categories (Exchange, SQL Server, Active Directory) to drive customers to use Microsoft virtualization products. Their tactics are focused on software licensing and distribution terms (for SQL Server, Exchange, Windows Server, Vista) and through the APIs and formats for virtualized Windows.
Via Mary Jo Foley.
