Microsoft a distant third in mock debate on virtualization

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VMware's going to win the virtualization battle, and Microsoft won’t even be its nearest competitor.

That was the outcome of a mock debate Wednesday in which analysts representing VMware, Microsoft and the Xen open source hypervisor lobbied for votes from an audience of IT executives attending Forrester Research’s IT Forum in Las Vegas.

When asked which server virtualization software will be their strategic platform over the next five years, 35 or so audience members raised their hands for VMware, about 15 for Xen, and only five for Microsoft.

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