The opportunity is for ISVs to develop a cut-down operating system pre-configured with their app on top, and deliver a whole running system. VMware's dominance of the x86 server virtualisation market may seem threatened by commoditisation as the big hitters take aim, but its influence on the server market will remain undiminished. Philip Hunter investigates. WHEN YOU HAVE over 90 per cent of a market, there is really only one direction to go -downwards - especially when major players decide to bundle in. But VMware, the king of x86 virtualisation, can take heart from the predictions of rapid growth in virtualisation coming from the analysts.
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