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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."
Virtuall first post
Maybe that's why TFS said "free", rather than "FREE"?
Caveat Utilitor
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.
As our way of thanking you for your positive contributions to Slashdot, you are eligible to disable Slashdot 2.0.
Well, he could have insomnia.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
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."
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!