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I deal with them as a customer and I will tell you that everything you say is exactly the way their customers see it. We're begging to find a reason to move the
by homosaur 14y ago
I deal with them as a customer and I will tell you that everything you say is exactly the way their customers see it. We're begging to find a reason to move the rest of our stuff off VMWare. Their technology is dull and pedestrian compared to what some vendors are bringing in. They are very good at what they do but every time I talk to a person in the company it just feels like they are in maintenance mode and are bored with their own products.
- waps 14y agoWhat are the things you're migrating to ? I'm voting for VirtualBox, but I guess you could go with kvm which has slightly better performance in my experience. Care to share where you're moving to ?
- MichaelMoser70 14y agoVirtualBox is very very slow on my PC, VMware player is faster.
- halviti 14y agoThe majority of their customers are corporate customers running ESX/ESXi, the only thing you could switch to would be Hyper-V.
- zb 14y agooVirt is also an option, but your point that VMWare did not collect $1.3B from people wanting to try out Ubuntu on their laptops stands. (Disclosure: I am not unbiased)
- waps 14y agoThis may be a dumb question ... but why would you limit yourself to that option ? VMWare images can be imported onto every virtualization system on the planet. Virtualbox, Qemu, KVM, even Bochs can import VMWare images ... What is the limiting factor ?
- sc0rb 14y agoI expected posts like this to come flooding in. Posts by people who think virtualisation starts and ends with your efforts to get Ubuntu or Windows running in Virtualbox. Posts by people who have no idea what virtualisation in the enterprise is. This post should be on 'shit HN says' but without the context it won't make any sense.
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