VMware continues its journey of being recognized in the industry as a leader and a user favorite as it pulls in yet another award. It was announced that VMware Workstation won the 2007 Visual Studio Magazine Readers' Choice Award in the Development Tools category. The magazine honors excellent software in 22 development categories based on votes collected from its readers. And the Readers' Choice Award is given VMware continues its journey of being recognized in the industry as a leader and a user favorite as it pulls in yet another award. It was announced that VMware Workstation won the 2007 Visual Studio Magazine Readers’ Choice Award in the Development Tools category. The magazine honors excellent software in 22 development categories based on votes collected from its readers. And the Readers’ Choice Award is given to the product receiving the highest number of reader votes, demonstrating real value to the Visual Studio Magazine audience.At first glance, that might seem strange to you. After all, with all the software development tools out there, why would readers choose a virtualization platform to be the winner? Simple. If you have ever worked as a developer, I bet you understand the pain of fighting for equipment, provisioning and re-provisioning the equipment and trying to reproduce bugs found by the testing team. VMware’s Workstation product helps with all of that. By leveraging virtualization products such as this, software developers can easily and quickly provision multi-tier environments and accelerate their software development life-cycle. It proves to be a real time saver and it allows developers to do what they do best, write code.Dan Chu, vice president of emerging products and markets at VMware said, “Receiving this award from such a distinguished audience further emphasizes the leadership of VMware Workstation as the desktop virtualization product of choice for software developers.” Software Development