Ballmer on Virtualization

By: Justin Braun
Posted on: September 29, 2008

Interesting quote from Steve Ballmer on virtualization that he gave during his September 25 Churchill Club speech:

“If you want virtualization on 80 percent of servers instead of 5 percent of servers, you better not charge three times as much as the price of the server for the virtualization,” Ballmer said. “For certain high-end applications, the approach that VMware has used is a perfectly good approach, but it’s not an approach that is going to lead to virtualization of a high percentage of servers.”

See the whole speech and more details here.

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