vmware positioned for massive market share hemorrhage
Posted by Matthew on Tuesday March 15, 2005 @06:31PM
from the vaporization dept.
Matthew writes: For immediate release – vmware, the market leaders in x86 virtualization technology has announced its plans to hemorrhage marketshare to a large crop of up-and-coming competitors.
“For years, we were the only name in x86 virtualization, except for VirtualPC which didn’t count because it only ran on Macs. We trickled out the technology to software developers and IT geeks who we knew would think it was cool, because it was pretty much impossible to explain to normal people.”
“Then, CIO magazine ran an article on virtualization and suddenly everyone thought it was cool. We were snapped up by EMC, Microsoft bought VirtualPC and ported it to the PC, virtuozzo cropped up out of the web hosting market, and a bunch of open source projects like XEN, coLinux, and User Mode Linux cropped up seemingly overnight. Now everybody and their dog is running multiple operating systems on their computers.”
“This confluence of events has positioned vmware to hemorrhage marketshare faster than Novell in the nineties. With our combination of a closed development platform, extraordinarily high prices for what others are practically giving away, our commitment to falling behind technologically in the critical automatic hardware pooling space, we feel that there’s been no better time to announce that our future is blight.”