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VMware is it at the end of his leadership?
VMware is it at the end of his leadership?  The ads players in this market and the fall of Cap under VMWare can at the very least to raise the question.

The accommodation made its revolution through virtualisation

"Until the summer of 2007, there was only one actor in this market, ie VMware," says Pascal Ozanne Marketing Director of Citrix, which is now one of its competitors in the sector of virtualization. Indeed, the market has seen virtualization as it is only one leader since its inception. And the financial results of VMware proved so far that its domination paid on a booming market.

Indeed IDC estimates the market for virtualization is expected to be $ 7.5 billion in 2011, whereas it is only $ 3 billion in 2007.  Such progress will be made possible by the fact that currently, only 10% of servers are virtualized.

The latest quarterly results of VMware (results for the third quarter 2007) published at the end of October, saw turnover soar with 357.8 million dollars, an increase of 90% compared to the previous year, and net profits literally explode at 64 million, or 242% more than last year at the same time.
Following the publication of the results, the current stock market VMWare had also changed on the rise, reaching a record level of $ 124.83 share, Oct. 31.

But since then, the title plummet to reach earlier this week course $ 80.36, a loss of 35.7%. Faced with this crack, two hypotheses. Either it is a fair return to equilibrium after a period of speculation due to the publication of good results, the sector is changing, and the market reacts accordingly.

War on services
The arrival on the market for virtualization Microsoft with its Hypervisor Viridian announced for 2008 and the rise to power of Citrix with Xen fact can indeed be made aware that VMware market is no longer the sole master of the world market of virtualization. IQuestioned on the issue of the loss of value of the title, VMware France did not wish to comment on the information.
"We now have on the market hyperviseurs Vmware, Xen Citrix, and soon Viridian, Microsoft. But the big battle will be played out on services that the various players will be ready to provide their customers," says Pascal Ozanne.

The market for server virtualization is now comfortably occupied by VMWare
And it must be said that in terms of services offered from hyperviseurs, alliances of Microsoft and Citrix Microsoft has announced that its Hypervisor Viridian would be compatible with the Citrix services, and vice versa.

While the market for server virtualization, which weighs 1.3 billion is now comfortably occupied by VMware.  But the market for virtualization applications is now occupied by Citrix and the virtualization of the workstation is a new field of conquest to these players.

Oracle has announced the launch of Oracle VM, a server software virtualization based on the Xen Hypervisor Citrix can accommodate Oracle applications and third-party publishers. A new stone thrown into the garden of VMWare, which did not need them.
. As for alliances with manufacturers, the announcement of the partnership with Citrix Dell and HP, who have decided to embark "Xen Enterprise" natively on their servers, should not facilitate the work of evangelization VMware to prospective clients.

: The accommodation made its revolution through virtualisation

So, the collapse of the stock exchange VMware, simple passage vacuum, or the beginning of real competition in the market for virtualization? The next few months should register decisive for all these players, and we could attend a questioning of the major current hierarchy of the sector.