HP-3000 Systems Discussion wrote:
> Robert writes:
> 
>> The problem with virtual machine software is:
>> 
>> 1) You have to pay for the VM software,
>> 2) You still need a copy of Windoze,
>> 3) You need a box that can handle it.
> 
> Microsoft provides Virtual PC 2007 as a free download.
> 
> You don't have to pay for virtualization anymore as MS and
> others are including it as a functional component of the
> software o/s stack.
> 
> I would recommend shorting vmware stock :-)

VMWare was giving away their virtualization product (the equivalent to M$'s)
before M$ was. M$ has been trying to play catch-up for quite some time.
VMWare's upcoming next generation emulation will be another jump ahead.

VMWare makes their money on the big ESX/enterprise stuff, where they do
shine (at my client site we run about 200 virtual servers on a large
fault-tolerant/load-balancing ESX farm).

At 3k I run the freeware (VMWare) virtualization on a Dell PowerEdge 830
Linux platform and host a Windows and a Linux server on it.

-Chris

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