RE: Meanwhile at my work we just recently dumped VMWare for Hyper-V.
I’m curious, what reasons persuaded your company to do that? (DISCLOSURE: I own a large number of VMW stocks ).
Hyper-V is free in Windows 8.1,has better integration with the OS, and the VMs run faster. Also there are porting tools so the transition is easy.
VMware is a good product, but MS is adequate. They've done some catching up. Bottom line, it's all about $$$$. The licensing and support fees for VM are cost prohibitive.
VMware (now) is a Ferrari. MS (now) is a Ford. For my needs, Ford is just fine.
I developed a system that used VMware in over 14,000 locations. I used VMware because the MS product couldn’t do what we needed to do (run a legacy Unix-based system).
My management has spent the last 5 years desperately trying to switch over to MS, but no matter how much they want it, it still won’t do the job.
There are lots of management types who would rather have a failed project than a non-Microsoft success. Stupid, but common.
FYI, Steve Balmer himself took my boss golfing to try to get back that contract.