The Virtualization Format War

摘要

There's a format war going on, and given the increasing popularity of virtualization in the enterprise, purchasing virtualization solutions will get more complicated for Microsoft customers. Some believe that standards will help accelerate the development of virtualization solutions and add-on products. Vendors are waiting for the prominent market players to fork over their virtualization APIs to industry standards organizations so those organizations can generate some virtual machine standards to foster interoperability between products. Here's what you need to know about VMware's and Microsoft's virtualization products and the two companies' different strategies.