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Kenneth van Surksum on
on May 27 2009, 8:28 AM
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Have you ever wondered why Microsoft cares so much about server virtualization? After all, it’s only a software representation of a physical machine.
Microsoft has been very content over the last nearly 30 years letting the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM build physical servers with nary a care. When VMware introduced commodity server virtualization back in 1999, Microsoft hardly batted an eye. So what’s happened to make Microsoft not only care, but care enough to invest millions of dollars into their own server virtualization solution?
It’s all about control.
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