This Week in Virtualization: March 12, 2010

This Week in Virtualization: March 12, 2010

This Week in Virtualization: March 12, 2010

Date: Mar 12, 2010

The March 12, 2010 edition of This Week in Virtualization covers these three stories:

SpringSource promotion: SpringSource will give away its new tc Server Spring Edition to customers that buy VMware vSphere, vCenter, ThinApp or View.

Oracle virtualization: Will Oracle be able to take on VMware once Oracle VM 3 comes out this spring?

VMware Labs:: VMware launched a new site to show off some of its in-development projects.

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