Virtualization Goes Mainstream

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 16, 2006 @05:49AM from the legits dept.

InformationWeek is reporting that, during the same week that Microsoft announced the free price for Virtual PC, VMWare 1.0 was released for free as well. Though there were already many free options for virtualization available, these major products signal a shift in the industry. From the article: "There are many ramifications here. Obviously, the slew of products means network managers can now adopt virtual servers into their overall strategies and don't have acquisition costs providing a justification to avoid it. Other than the very-high-end VMware ESX and the midline Microsoft Virtual Server on mainstream XP platforms, virtualization is essentially free wherever you might want to use it."

2 of 167 comments (clear)

Does that mean by WhatDoIKnow · 2006-07-16 06:44 · Score: 0, Troll

that you may have to deal with 4 instances of WGA?
:wq
Re:right... by posterlogo · 2006-07-16 09:04 · Score: 1, Troll

Let's not kid ourselves. The "single fee" deal just means they partially factor in the cost of the additional licenses into the overhead cost. You're paying for it if you use the VM licenses or not. I think we'll see exactly what that means when pricing for Vista Enterprice edition is announced.