Microsoft has troubled road ahead with virtualisation

Stan Beer
Tuesday, 15 July 2008 15:18

Business IT - Technology

"The Redmond giant also argues that Hyper-V will be cheaper than VMware’s hypervisor. But any price comparisons must involve an assessment of the management tools that customers will also need to buy – and their functionality. Microsoft is already in damage control mode."

In addition to Stammers views on cost, it's going to be hard for Microsoft to play the price card against a competitor that has successfully demonstrated to clients that it already pays for itself many times over.

As is the case in the Internet space, it looks like troubled times ahead for Microsoft on the virtualisation front.