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VMware ESXi Available For Free Starting Today
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."
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Maybe that's why TFS said "free", rather than "FREE"?
Caveat Utilitor
(H)igh (A)vailability and (D)istributed (R)esource (S)cheduler.
And just in case you couldn't tell that we're spelling out an abbreviation, not only have we capitalized the letters, we've added parentheses around each one as well!
slashdot apparently is a guerrilla marketing site. Who knew?
*raises hand*
This guy's the limit!
The ad got the product name wrong, it's suppose to be iESX.
They should've just called it VMware SEXi. "I need to go fiddle with the SEXi server."
This guy's the limit!
Yes, let's get into arguments about what free is. Cause it's not like one could successfully argue (depending on one's precise definition of free) that GPL, BSD, $0, any of that, is/is not free. Come on, man, get off your high horse.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
Pfft, don't lie to us, you're not going to read the EULA.
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I thought it was iSEX, maybe a new...Apple ummm...nevermind
use your turn signal! you people act like it's divulging information to the enemy
Well, he could have insomnia.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
If I were to go to McDonalds for a promotion of "Free McNugget Wednesdays", you can bet I'll have a happy little lawsuit when they actually try to charge me and claim "It is free in that you can do whatever you want with it!"
Yeah, I threatened to sue when the local market wanted me to pay for their so-called "Free Range Chickens".
Range Chickens? What, are these replacing clay pigeons?
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
"It is unfortunate that the word "free" in English has such multiple meanings."
Yeah, there should be like regulations and laws against that, who are we to look for alternate meanings, keep these language pirates from stealing our sources.
it was until it stole my girlfriend and put those photos we took up on Google Images..oh man i shoulda seen that coming
But riding my high horse is free! So I ride him everywhere because of high gas prices.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
But you're playing right into the hands of big hay!