VMware To Microsoft: 'Not That Much Has Changed'
30 Jun 2008 - 09:01:24

By Charles Babcock Fri Jun 27, 7:28 PM ET Microsoft is ready to ship its Hyper-V as part of Windows 2008, the world shudders in anticipation, but VMware's senior manager of product marketing, John Gilmartin, says, "Nothing has really changed." Gilmartin is senior manager of product marketing for VMware, the market leader, and it's his job to go out and tamp down some of the excitement over Microsoft's move that adds a hypervisor to the Windows 2008 operating system. "Hyper-V is a first generation product with the type of functionality we were offering 6-7 years ago. Customers want more than basic parts," he said. Most observers move Hyper-V up a notch or two from that assessment, especially when combined with Microsoft System Center's Virtual Machine Manager, to be released in the fourth quarter. VMware then may find itself in a battle for hearts and minds, considering the $5,000 price that accompanies its EXS Server hypervisor versus free as part of Windows Server 2008. But VMware has proven adept in the past at lowering prices at key points where competitive pressures were building. As Xen moved into its Version 3.0, VMware made its GSX Server, a pre-hypervisor generator, available for free as a renamed VMware Server. "We think Hyper-V adoption will be rapid over the next two years because the price is free with Windows Server 2008, its prove to be very stable and reliable from the get go, and does almost everything ESX does out of the box," wrote Jeff Gag...

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