http://blogs.technet.com/b/stbnewsbytes/archive/2008/02/26/competition-heating-up-among-all-the-virtualization-vendors-as-companies-start-to-look-at-tco.aspxThe vast majority of corporations believe it’s a question of when, not if, they will transition their data centers to a virtualized environment. Intensifying competition among leading virtualization vendors and increased demand by end users is creatingen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/stbnewsbytes/archive/2008/02/26/competition-heating-up-among-all-the-virtualization-vendors-as-companies-start-to-look-at-tco.aspx#2947221Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:49:13 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2947221jtroyer<p>Unfortunately, the Yankee Group report had a number of inaccuracies, especially around pricing. Their pricing comparison of VI3 vs Hyper-V was innaccurate, and even in what you quote they are comparing Virtual Server (a hosted product) with VI3 (a Type 1 hypervisor running directly on the hardware) and the Microsoft Management Suite Enterprise is $860 per managed host vs an unlimited host perpetual license for VMware VirtualCenter. More corrections are available at <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.vmware.com/virtualreality/2008/02/those-darn-de-1.html">http://blogs.vmware.com/virtualreality/2008/02/those-darn-de-1.html</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2947221" width="1" height="1">