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Re:VMware backs down, changes vSphere 5 pricing by geoffc on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @08:57PM (#2844020)
Alternative virtualization platforms are proliferating and get better all the time. Vmware has an early lead like Palm did and is correctly optimizing revenue from that lead but down the road ... where is palm today?
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Re:VMware backs down, changes vSphere 5 pricing by stock_toaster on Thursday August 04, 2011 @01:52AM (#2844812)
Agreed. Between Citrix (xen) and Redhat (kvm), as well as the related open source offerings, keep getting better.

I think the main area that VMWare still has a win, from people I know who use it, are management tools and the ability to prioritize/allocate/throttle IO on network block devices (SANs) per vm.

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