Many a software vendor has trembled at the sight of Microsoft in its rearview mirror and since Microsoft introduced Hyper-V, VMware is now the newest player looking over its shoulder. “Can VMware, last year’s Wall Street darling whose name has become synonymous with virtualization, survive Microsoft’s awesome embrace-and-extend campaign?” Tom Kaneshige asks in Microsoft vs. VMware: rumble in the virtual world. “Early signs point to a difficult road ahead.” That said, at one industry analyst believes that “it’s shaping up to be a very interesting battle.” And VMWare does have an ace up its sleeve… Software Development