Network World : Microsoft flaunts customer dumping VMware

"Microsoft is still refusing to showcase Hyper-V at VMworld in protest of VMware rules that Microsoft believes are designed to limit competition, but that doesn't mean the Microsoft hype machine will abstain from anti-VMware marketing.

In advance of next week's VMworld, Microsoft is touting a customer that is implementing a long-term plan to replace VMware with Microsoft and claims the move will provide savings of $3.2 million in the next three to five years. The customer, CH2M Hill, is ranked at No. 381 in the Fortune 500 and has corporate headquarters in Colorado."  ~ Jon Brodkin

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/082610-microsoft-virtualization.html?hpg1=bn

Just thought I would post this. It is interesting to me. I know that VMware is an outstanding program, however, I use VirtualBox.  I find VirtualBox to not hold me back when I make a VM out of any operating system. VirtualPC, which is owned by Microsoft, gives all the extras to it's own programs and seems to hinder all others. VMware doesn't seem to hinder you but it asks you to run in a cloud if you wish to create your own VMs. Either that or you need some potent hardware in order to do it in house. I find the use of cloud computing to be a bit of a hindrance, and still even though many advances have been made, it just seems to insecure to me. Call me old fashioned on this note but it is how I am.