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Citrix, VMware Stocks Fall On Amazon Cloud Push

Shares of Citrix Systems (CTXS) and VMware (VMW) were down for a second day following Amazon.com’s (AMZN) announcement that its Amazon Web Services unit will enter the desktop virtualization market to boost its cloud computing business. VMware’s virtualization software is widely used in corporate data centers to increase the flexibility and capabilities of computer servers, but it’s also moving onto desktops. Citrix has focused its virtualization

Red Hat, VMware Give Shape To Cloud

A ton of big-name outfits are grabbing onto the trend of cloud computing, and some analysts are high on the companies that keep the cloud afloat. And in the cloud infrastructure game, analysts often point to two vendors — Red Hat (RHT) and VMware (VMW). The underpinnings of cloud computing are the open-source Linux operating system and virtualization software — the main strengths of Red Hat and VMware, respectively. “We like being an arms dealer