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[PLUG] IT: VMware ESXi Available For Free Starting Today
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http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/07/28/1742222.shtml
IT: VMware ESXi Available For Free Starting Today
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 28, @02:52PM
from the free-always-sounds-better dept.
Operating Systems
Mierdaan writes "VMware's bare-metal hypervisor is available for free
starting today. ESXi, which can either be installed or run from an
embedded device available in certain servers, has a 32MB footprint and
gives small businesses an easy way to get into the virtualization world,
with easy upgrade paths to enterprise-level features such as (H)igh
(A)vailability and (D)istributed (R)esource (S)cheduler. ESXi runs on
most any hardware with a server-class disk controller, and previously
retailed for $495. VMware is obviously shooting to prevent Microsoft's
Hyper-V technology from gaining a foothold in the marketplace."
http://vmware.com/company/news/releases/esxi_pricing.html
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Later,
JP
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"Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on
software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and
implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law.
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