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VMware ESXi Available For Free Starting Today

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the free-always-sounds-better dept.

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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  1. Re:more info. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Virtuall first post

  2. Re:Not FREE by clang_jangle · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it's not FREE (as in GPL v3), it's not FREE.

    Maybe that's why TFS said "free", rather than "FREE"?

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  3. Re:advertising by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    slashdot apparently is a guerrilla marketing site. Who knew?

    *raises hand*

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  4. Re:wrong name by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

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  5. Re:Not FREE by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:more info. by Kamokazi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pfft, don't lie to us, you're not going to read the EULA.

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  7. Re:more info. by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, he could have insomnia.

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  8. Re:Not FREE by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Range Chickens? What, are these replacing clay pigeons?

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  9. Re:The First One is Free, Kid by mrsteveman1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    it was until it stole my girlfriend and put those photos we took up on Google Images..oh man i shoulda seen that coming

  10. Re:Not FREE by nizo · · Score: 5, Funny

    But riding my high horse is free! So I ride him everywhere because of high gas prices.

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  11. Re:Not FREE by grahamd0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But you're playing right into the hands of big hay!