<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/63c337f8-c501-4fd1-a052-1bcc9ad20bd3/978D8552-A377-440D-B436-9A310C329022/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/vmware-vs-microsoft-its-about-more-than-the-plumbing/?partner=rss&emc=rss" href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/vmware-vs-microsoft-its-about-more-than-the-plumbing/?partner=rss&emc=rss" style="font-size: 11px;">bits.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/vmware-vs-microsoft-its-about-more-than-the-plumbing/?partner=rss&emc=rss"><P> What makes virtual machine software strategically important is that it is a program that sits on top of the hardware and beneath the operating system, like Microsoft’s Windows. And with new tools, programmers will increasingly be able to write applications that all-but-sidestep the operating system, and talk directly to the virtual machine layer. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/vmware-vs-microsoft-its-about-more-than-the-plumbing/?partner=rss&emc=rss"><P> As the article notes, VMware has a big, early lead in the use of virtual machine software. More than than 80 percent of the virtualized computing workloads were running on VMware at the end of last year. The rest ran on not only Microsoft’s HyperV virtual machine software (bundled free into Windows Server 2008, in an echo of Microsoft’s browser strategy), but also <A title="More information about Citrix Systems Incorporated" class="tickerized" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/citrix_systems_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Citrix Systems</A>‘ Xen, Virtual Iron, Parallels and even <A title="More information about Oracle Corporation" class="tickerized" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/oracle_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Oracle</A>, a recent entrant.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/978D8552-A377-440D-B436-9A310C329022/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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