VMware Inc. officials have objected to an assertion by IDC that VMware has lost some of its industry-leading market share to Microsoft Corp., claiming instead that Microsoft's new Hyper-V product has barely made a dent in sales in the short time it's been available.
IDC stated last week that VMware's share of new x86 virtualization software shipments was 44% in the second quarter, with Microsoft clocking in at 23%.
IDC attributed Microsoft's growth to the general availability of Hyper-V, a notion at which VMware officials scoffed. Hyper-V was made generally available on June 26, meaning only a few business days were left in the second quarter, Mike DiPetrillo, a principal systems engineer at VMware, wrote in a blog post that analyzes the IDC report.
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