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VMware, Citrix Battle on Virtual Desktop

Do these vendors coordinate this stuff, or are they spying on each other or something? In the same week, VMware, virtualization titan, and Citrix, virtualization challenger, released competing news about competing desktop virt (seriously, do we always have to call it virtualization?) products. Here's VMware's news and that of Citrix, with an added note about a new Citrix partner program.

Oh, and while we're talking about VMware, its parent company, EMC, had news this week of its own about an application mapping tool that can help discover and manage virtual resources as well as physical stuff.

Posted by Lee Pender on May 21, 2008


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