When it comes to desktop virtualization, you can’t help but wonder if the pursuit of all these various silos reflects any reality of the customer experiences today. When you look at VMware’s approach to desktop virtualization specifically, it’s pretty clear that from its perspective the center of the universe is a VMware virtual machine.
Microsoft has yet to fully make its desktop virtualization case, but you can safely assume that the company’s Hyper-V virtual machine software is also at the center of a monotheistic approach to virtualization. Citrix, at least, gets points for having a more open approach that embraces Microsoft on the one hand, while grudgingly accepting the fact that some customers for reasons of their own might want to connect Citrix desktop virtualization software to a VMware server.
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