There are actually two pieces of VMWare-related news for you all. Yesterday, the company announced its initial public offering (IPO) plans to the world: VMWare will sell about 10 percent of the company via stock sometime this summer. Through the IPO, they hope to increase brand visibility and strengthen employee retention and recruiting... as well as make tons of cash. Good luck to them on that - VMWare is a very large and very solid company with a lot of experience behind them in the world of virtualization. The second piece of news, which is perhaps far more interesting to Mac users, was that a mysterious, anonymous video was leaked yesterday showing Windows 3D graphics acceleration running on VMWare for OS X. Watch the rather amateurish video for yourself, and ponder it in awe. Needless to say, the video and its implications generated a bit of buzz among virtualization and, more importantly, gaming fans yesterday.

My guess is VMWare leaked it on purpose. They were second to the Mac OS X market, so they're going to do eveything they can to show that they are the better company for doing VM on Mac. And honestly, they probably will be. Their offerings on Windows make Parallels look like a toy :-)