Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 10:03 GMT
I find the price is still pretty high : even for the Foundation version, that's still at least $1k per server. For most basic servers, that's still a 30% to 50% price increase if you decide to go virtual.
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 13:46 GMT
Mathieu - take a look at http://vmware.com/products/server/, they offer the actual server for free. Unless your forking out $50k for a failover solution (including SAN etc) then go for the freebie! Backup etc can still be done by your usual system backup.
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 15:16 GMT
For VMWare Server yes, but that's not the same as VMWare ESX Server.
I'll wait to see what can be done with ESX 3i + APIs when it comes embedded in the servers themselves (hopefully without a big price hitch).
Posted Thursday 6th December 2007 00:01 GMT
VMWare is not well-liked by the channel. Citrix has a real opportunity here on both price and performance with their Xen-based products. SMB is not a risk-adverse as large enterprises.
Old-school companies will continue to buy 1st generation virtualization, but the more nimble smaller companies already know and trust Citrix.
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