Xconomy is discussing whether or not companies are choosing VMware or the competition (us) and asking why people have chosen their particular solution. Read the full article here and pay special attention to the comments of two Virtual Iron customers (emphasis mine):

I head up an IT Department at a Law Firm and we chose Virtual Iron over VMWare. Despite the fact that VMWare told me to my face that we were too small (85 users/15 Servers) for them to help put together a business case for our Shareholders, I evaluated their product.

I found that Virtual Iron offered ALL of the features that were necessary and in addition to helping with the development of a business case specific to our business, VI had one of their engineers call to speak in great length about hardware requirements, features and the product roadmap. In my opinion, even if I had the budget for VMWare, I still would have gone with Virtual Iron as their level of support and professionalism is superior.

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“My company spent a year evaluating VMWare and Virtual Iron after visiting Linux World, and chose Virtual Iron,” said a reader who identified himself as Paul Joncas of Meganet. “VMware has some bells and whistles that others don’t have at this time, but [Virtual Iron] is equivalent when it comes to the key features and capabilities that are the core reason for deploying a virtualized server array.”