Application Virtualization and Streaming

You talke about MS solutions in terms of competition. Have you heard about the partnership between Citrix and Microsoft. If the answer is yes, why you put Microsoft's technology against Citrix technology.

As a consultant I have to provide customers with the real point of view in terms of how to take advantage of the technology.

In my opinion, your comments just confuse the user, thinking that Microsoft is a competitor of Citrix.

Because in this specific context, Application Streaming and Virtualization, Microsoft is competing with Citrix. When you have two distinct vendors providing different products with such and overlap in functionality that they can be considered as alternatives to each other, that is the definition of competition. The fact that Citrix is playing this down does not change this fact.

Likewise Microsoft and Citrix will be competing on server virtualization once Hyper-V is released - an important point Citrix is also downplaying.

If you are a consultant and neglect to mention these facts to your customers then it is you who are confusing them.