Dimitri Rodis wrote:
Also (a little OT), a lot more people are going to be preferring MS Virtual Server than vmware-- VS2005R2 is only $99 for standard edition
Yeah, until they actually try to run a production server on the piece of trash. I tried MS VS in a real production environment, and it's soooooo sllooooooooowwww, especially on disk I/O, that it just wasn't even close to being a feasible production option. That was even with a beta of R2, which was a decent amount faster than the original release in my testing and still that poor of a performer with real work loads. Using VMware GSX now, and gladly paid the ~$2K for it. I wouldn't give MS a dime for VS. VMware is so far ahead of MS on all their product line it isn't even funny. Why do you think they keep drastically undercutting VMware on price, and yet VMware *still* has a huge majority of the market? Performance, features, you name it - MS is far behind and actually keeps slipping back further. They're making steps forward, while VMware is taking leaps. You really do get what you pay for. (and I'm not some anti-MS bigot either, my primary job is 50% Windows network administration, and I'm a MCSE! :p ) MS doesn't support FreeBSD, so is likely to have some hardware quirks that just can't be easily resolved. Any issues that might crop up that are FreeBSD problems aren't likely to get resolved either. Neither of those would be looked at by us. We're stretched thin as is, and we ignore basically all FreeBSD issues at this point.
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