I was chatting to my friend who worked for MS NZ in their sales team and we were talking about the usual "who's bigger, who are the main competitors" type stuff

I was chatting to my friend who worked for MS NZ in their sales team and we were talking about the usual "who's bigger, who are the main competitors" type stuff. He asked who we all thought MS' biggest NZ competitors were. Naturally I answered Oracle/Sun as one of the main ones. He just laughed though, then told me that it was VMWare. If he knew, then MS are surely pretty keenly aware of this.