As I'm sure many many IT geek's like myself do, I like to keep up to date on all IT developments and one of the ways I keep up to date is by registering to quite a few mailing lists/rss feeds of blogs(Mark Wilson's and the Vmware Technology network blogs being two I would highly recommend). But a great digital magazine I always receive is the Redmond magazine from Redmond Mag. If memory serves me right I subscribed to this a few years back after it was offered for free via an MCP offer and have enjoyed a large number of their reviews and articles.
When I opened my outlook this morning I noticed a mail from Redmond telling me a new issue of the magazine was available for download so I downloaded it and their cover story caught my interest straight away "Redmond Triple Crown Winner", obviously being a readers choice awards. I read through the article and the two awards that caught my attention was that for Best Virtual Server Product Vmware GSX Server took the triple crown(meaning it has won it for at least three years running) with a win of 60% of the votes compared to Microsoft Virtual Server only receiving 28.3% of the votes and for Best Virtual PC Product Vmware's Workstation Edition took the triple Crown also with 57.8% of the votes compared to Microsoft second placed Microsoft Virtual PC for Windows' 35% of the votes. I cant see this going down very well with Microsoft that for their own magazine's readers awards they lost two very large awards and by a substantial amount too. Microsoft have obviously been pushing very hard lately with Hyper-V and I'm sure a number of people will be claiming that next year Hyper-V will take this award but with such a large number of votes for GSX I think Microsoft might have a fair amount of work still to do in the Virtualisation market before they can knock Vmware off their perch at the top, especially if the numbers convey the amount of people having Vmware as their virtual environment over Microsoft.
Gregg Robertson
Conchango
