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VMware's Response To Microsoft's VDI Offensive |
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008
by Michel Roth
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Last week Microsoft launched a regular offensive that marked Microsoft's entry into the VDI market space. Of course VMware also noticed Microsoft invading their territory and they no seemed to have shown how they think about all this.
Virtualization.info has published a letter that VMware has sent to all of it's partners in which they describe how VMware views the VDI offensive launched by Microsoft. The letter has quite a fierce tone. They even go as far as to state that they think Microsoft is "playing" Citrix. This "playing" could very well be a real scenario. Think of it this way: if you are Citrix and one of your strongest foundations is a protocol that is (way) better than Microsoft's RDP, what would you think it Microsoft went out and bought a product that could very well make ICA obsolete? I know, you would be seriously stressed out. Microsoft calmed down Citrix... don't worry we're still buddies, we will tell everyone that they should buy XenDesktop Server if they want to do VDI . Now why would we do that if we wanted to dump you? And thus, Citrix quieted down. Well that's one version..... does not have to be true of course....
Anyway, this is what VMware had to say about Microsoft's VDI offensive: "...Microsoft announced a hodge-podge of items related to virtualization in a desperate attempt to make it look like it had a new, coherent vision and strategy for virtualization...
...MSFT includes many recycled items in the announcement to make it look substantive. In actuality, they are just rehashes of old items. Microsoft is not delivering anything new, substituting marketing in place of real substance...
...The new items are a collection of loosely connected pieces thrown together to look like a coherent virtualization plan. Microsoft is still talking vision...
...Microsoft's announcement introduces new conflicts into the Microsoft-Citrix business partnership and begs the question "When will Microsoft dump Citrix and take all of the business for itself?" Is this just a partnership of convenience for Microsoft until it ships its own product?...
...Tell your prospects that are considering Citrix, that MSFT will soon cut Citrix out of the loop...and Citrix is allowing it to happen...
...New Conflict #1: Microsoft System Center or Citrix XenServer for Management...This declaration hits at the heart of Citrix's stated business model for virtualization - to generate revenue from the management of Windows VMs with Citrix XenCenter. System Center and XenCenter are clearly competitors...
...New Conflict #2: Calista acquisition creates more direct competition with Citrix SpeedScreen (ICA)..This acquisition strikes at Citrix's core business since ICA is Citrix's key differentiator and competes with RDP..."
Read more at the source, virtualization.info.
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