Not too long ago, Citrix announced a partnership with Intel on a client side bare metal hypervisor. This partnership was part of a new project from Citrix called “Project Independence”. Well, today, VMware announced that they too are partnering up with Intel to create a client side bare metal hypervisor. VMware is calling this CVP for Client Vitalization Platform. What is interesting about this announcement is that it is almost exactly the same for VMware and Citrix. In fact, Brian Madden posted a neat exercise where he took each announcement from Citrix and VMware and replaced each vendor name with <vendor> and each project name with <client hypervisor name>. It is next to impossible to tell which excerpt came from which announcement.

You can read Brian’s post (with the altered quotes) here…

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