Well, I have personally worked/am working on major platform transformation projects for two global Fortune 500 companies in the past few years. Current customer definitely has VMWare, but when the incumbent outsources takes 2-3 weeks to provision a VM (let alone physical hardware), it's understandable that the organisation is looking for better outcomes. And if it means that a supplier better able to deliver outcomes (i.e. us) is going to deliver it on SCVMM 2008 and Hyper-V, then so be it.
Cheers Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 5 October 2008 9:54 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q > > Esxi = free > Vmware server = free > > > Im not against MS in any way shape or form, they will end up with a good > product and will likely be adopted by a lot of people. > > I think they have a pretty big battle on their hands here because it will > take a lot of people to switch, a game changer if you will. There is > definitely growth in the virtual market place. Vmware has all of fortune 500 > and such so it would be interesting to see what people do to switch out > their existing infrastructure. > > I know it will be done, but how many remains to be seen. In comparison to > Novell and other technologies there comes a time when you upgrade equipment > that you can review new o/ses with more functions. It remains to be seen > what those 'functions' will be coming down the road in the virtual market. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
