Um, Microsoft cut the price of Virtual Server to $99, and then gave it away for free, well before VMWare started offering VMWare Server v1.0. You used to have to pay for GSX Server... And VMWare Server doesn't use a hypervisor in any case.
Whilst Microsoft's technology might be behind VMWare's - they are doing to VMWare what they've done in many other markets (databases, directories etc). They produce several versions of a product and sell at a fraction of the cost of their competitors. Over a period of a few iterations, the product ends up with 90% of the features that 90% of buyers need. Windows Server used to be nowhere. SQL Server used to be nowhere. Biztalk used to be nowhere. Sharepoint used to be nowhere. Exchange used to be nowhere. Now these are all serious players in the market. Cheers Ken From: Chris Alliey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 4 October 2008 6:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q VMWare has been giving their hypervisor away for free for a while now. In addition to ESXi, they have been giving VMWare server and Player away for a long time. I'm glad MS is 'giving' it away (Don't you still need to buy an OS from them?) - but I'll stick with VMware! Just my 0.02¢ Chris From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Perhaps not immediately, but surely many of you remember when Novell had a seemingly untouchable hold on the networking OS market? Dead horse Q of the week: If Microsoft suddenly made several poor choices and was about to go under, would the government bail it out? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! Hmmm, I don't think that Hyper-V is going to shove VMWare out of the way, they are way to ahead of MS in virtualization at this point to even be threatened by Hyper-V. On 10/1/08, Andy Shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: <yawn> Shook From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! +1 I think the whole world is about to become more virtual. Will free Hyper-V do to VMware what Internet Explorer did to Netscape? Is it déjà vu all over again? Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
