Today, at Teched North America in New Orleans, I attended a breakout session where Microsoft compared their Virtualization to VMware. Jason Fulencheck, from Microsoft, quoted a late 2009 Gartner survey where they polled CIO’s and IT managers about server virtualization. The results were very interesting: 40% of the participants responded that they would adopt a multi-vendor strategy for their server virtualization. Two out of three of these people would likely adopt Microsoft & VMware as vendors.

Why Microsoft?