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Re:VMware to cut 900 jobs by halviti on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @03:17AM (#5132920)
The majority of their customers are corporate customers running ESX/ESXi, the only thing you could switch to would be Hyper-V.
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Re:VMware to cut 900 jobs by zb on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @05:49AM (#5133297)
oVirt 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)

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Re:VMware to cut 900 jobs by waps on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @10:16AM (#5139800)
This 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 ?

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