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Agreed... Only real enterprise alternative is Hyper-V - I have used it quite a bit and do like it, but, I just don't feel as happy using it as I am ESX. Like W
by wilhil 15y ago
Agreed... Only real enterprise alternative is Hyper-V - I have used it quite a bit and do like it, but, I just don't feel as happy using it as I am ESX.
Like Windows is dominant on the desktop, ESX pretty much owns the (paid virtualisation) ecosystem through many third party programs.
Microsoft is getting there, it is just much slower, but, a price increase like this could be (but I doubt it) VMware's undoing.
- jjm 15y agoI think Oracle does something similar and we all know how that went... they're huge and have lots of cash... "Enterprise/Big Corp" will buy anything with the right sales person. http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Oracle_Licensing#Enterprise_Edition_Per-core_licensing http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Oracle_Licensing#Enterprise_Editi...
- Duff 15y agoMicrosoft is good at making products that are good enough and staying in the game for a long time. In 1990, high-end engineering users were very happy with their Unix workstations. Windows NT in comparison kind of sucked -- but over time the suckage was not enough to justify paying $20,000 for a workstation versus $8k for a NT Workstation. Ditto SQL Server. Back when I was a newbie Informix DBA, my older colleagues laughed at people messing around with SQL Server. Informix was an awesome product in many ways, but cost like $40,000/cpu when SQL Server cost alot less. Who's laughing now?