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Re:Ask HN: How dominant is VMWare (as of Aug 2016)? by caseymarquis on Saturday August 13, 2016 @11:57PM (#12284207)
I've seen about 50/50 VMware/Hyper-V in my travels. I mostly deal with manufacturing companies in the US. They're very Windows centric, which, I imagine, is why Hyper-V comes up so often. Virtually none of them want to touch anything cloud based; there's a lack of trust and potential legal issues depending on what they're making. Cloud platforms targeted toward government might change that. The more forward thinking small/mid sized operations seem to be moving towards some cloud based products, but the industry is behind the times.

Can only speak from experience within US manufacturing. Don't apply this beyond that.

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Re:Ask HN: How dominant is VMWare (as of Aug 2016)? by akulbe on Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:58AM (#12284438)
The legal worries about putting stuff in the cloud are much more apparent with companies outside of the US, in my experience.

Was formerly part of a US company that was pushing a new product hard towards a cloud-based model. They were expecting a particular foreign customer to go for it.

The customer said "NO WAY. EVER."

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