VMware has continued to grow its server virtualization business in the face of stiffening competition from Microsoft and Citrix. Its momentum continues to carry it forward to provide a platform on which solution providers can provide a variety of services to customers.
Therefore, despite its position in terms of application virtualization, VMware still generated the lion's share of server and application virtualization proposals, about 45 percent in the first half of 2008 compared to 32 percent for Microsoft and 20 percent for Citrix.
That Citrix compares so well to Microsoft also suggests that its strategy of combining its legacy application virtualization business with its acquisition of its XenServer technology is attractive to the channel.
