VMware to Make Server Product Free (as in beer) 216
yahyamf writes "CNET News.com is reporting that in the face of increasing competition in the OS virtualization market VMWare is going to give away its GSX server product for free, in the hope that customers who try it will eventually migrate to the more powerful ESX server. The company recently released a free VMWare Player which could only run but not create virtual machines. The company faces competition from rival products such as SWsoft's Virtuozzo, Mircrosoft's Virtual Server, as well as open source software like Xen"
Mmm? (Score:5, Funny)
Sublime server names (Score:2, Funny)
I'm interested how the Intel Virtualization Technology will run on the up and coming SEX server.
Speculation (Score:3, Funny)
So the title "VMware to Make Server Product Free (as in beer)" is misleading at best.
Related Stories? (Score:3, Funny)
And most importantly: Will it also list the dupes?
Re:Why Not Use Patents? (Score:4, Funny)
VMWare is not in a good position to use patents to protect their IP.
The reason being that they actually have a product. This means they can be countersued for things like using a drop down menu, displaying a rectangle on a screen, ingenious stuff like that.