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Both Microsoft and Citrix released their Q2 results recently.
Citrix PDF

Vmware Transcript

I am no financial expert but it appeared that Vmwares licensing revenue dipped quite a bit more than Citrix’s did but their services revenue went up enough to cover the loss in licensing.  This is pretty interesting for partners of both companies.

I am looking forward to what happens in Q3&Q4 with the introduction of XenServer 5.5.  Will it finally be able to erode more of the enterprise server virtualization space?

What really shocked me was the amount of commitments for Citrix XenDesktop, their desktop virtualization platform of over 1000 seats.

Your thoughts?

I ran across this issue at a customers today. Trying to run the Vmware Vshpere 4.0 client on a windows 7 RC virtual machine.

When trying to start the client you get the following errors:

Then after you click that

After some research I found the following solution on The Vmware knowledge base.
Here

A bit of a pain but if you are already bleeding on Windows 7 then you are probably used to these kinds of issues.

Thanks to Chris Rugg for the research!