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Probably due to the inroads made by KVM and the like.

• aaronblohowiak 18y ago
  MS's free as in beer virtual server, perhaps?
  • gaius 18y ago
    Sun VirtualBox.
    • nailer 18y ago
      * No * No * No Those are all desktop technologies. VMware make the majority of their revenue from dedicated virtualization servers, that connect to a shared SAN, and allow VMs to be moved from one physical server to another while running. Their competitors are: * Microsoft HyperV (missed inclusion inWin2K8, but available as a seperate download - can't move VMs without downtime). Management through MMC. * RHEL Advanced Server (RHEL 5 with oVirt, a web based management tool, or Virtual Machine Manager, a shitty desktop based one. KVM/Xen is used as the engine, with a preference towards KVM. Not sure on moving VMs, know its planned but haven't payed with it much. * Citrix Xenserver * Hosted Xen, eg Amazon EC2.
      • gaius 18y ago
        Is that actually true? As far as I know, desktop virtualization (for developers and QA) is a large chunk of VMware's business, indeed it's where they got their start.
        • nailer 18y ago
          Yeah. Desktop virt for developers and QA is certainly visible. Virtualized server farms, OTOH, are transparent. You could be logging into a VM and never know unless you ran dmidecode (Linux) or Get_WMIObject Vendor (Windows, IIRC). That VM could also be moving from one physical machine to another while you're logged into it. You'd never know. Last project I worked on was at a bank, with a few hundred VMs used to replicate the prod environment about 18 times. Project budget was $450M AU, about $400M US. VMware got a good chunk of that.
        • rams 18y ago
          Their desktop products like vmplayer, vmware server are free.