*grins*  I like this.  Patrick over at the Windows Server Division Blog has done a really nice ”roundup” of Vmware Whitepaper responses from most of the the IT Publications.  A snippet from his post “VMyths” is below:

For those of us interested in virtualization, we now have a new definition of white paper, to say the least. It appears the Dan’s pre-VMWorld 2006 blog was good enough to qualify and package as a white paper. Not only did Mike Neil reject VMWare’s claims today, but there have been many questions in the press about the motivation of the white paper. At best, it’s been mixed reviews for the white paper.
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The resulting press coverage from the virtualization licensing announcement acknowledges that virtualization software challenges all current licensing and support agreements - not just Microsoft’s, but all commercial software vendors. It’s interesting to look back at some of those industry quotes and customer comments, and then contrast them to VMware’s points.
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The research firm surveyed about 1,770 enterprise and smaller companies and found that use of server virtualization grew from 29% in 2005 to 40% in 2006

Queue the voice over to Leonard Nemoy in “In Search Of…” It was always one of my favorite shows.

Feb. 28 update: InfoWorld goes so far as to call the white paper FUD

Patrick