This battle is about to be re-enacted in the euro zone, where higher-cost countries have tied themselves to a new gold standard, in the form of the hyper-efficient German export machine.
"Many customers suggested they were unlikely to switch from VMware to Hyper-V at any price, since Hyper-V lacked virtual machine mobility as well as other higher-level features such as disaster recovery, " Rueppel wrote in an April 1 research note.