Pointing out a Third Party (Mitch Garvis) response to VMware’s “Get the Facts – Not the Microsoft Hyper-bole” campaign

Recently, VMware launched a campaign and webpage called “Get the Facts – not the Microsoft Hyper-bole”. On this page, VMware lists five “facts” why VMware is better than Microsoft. I have wanted to respond to this myself, but being a Microsoft employee, makes it a bit more difficult and of course is biased (even though I am VCP5 certified). Luckily for me, on July 5th, Mitch Garvis posted his opinion in a blog post. Whether you agree with all his statements or not, it is indeed a good read and the key to remember is that you really need to do the math and the testing yourself. In about a month, Windows Server 2012 will become the “Current” version of Windows and Hyper-V and that is where one really needs to do comparative testing.

Harold Wong