After the dramatic licensing mix up with ESX and ESXi yesterday, VMware was quick to respond with a blog post from their CEO. In short, the issue was caused because the time switch was not removed when update 2 went into release mode. VMware CEO Paul Martiz says that they are reevaluating their QA and [...]
It appears that VMware will soon be making a move to better compete against Microsoft’s “free” hypervisor: the company will be offering ESX 3i for free.
According to several sources, VMware will begin giving away its lightweight hypervisor beginning July 28th. Read the full articles here and here.
This move by VMware could be the “shot heard round the world” [...]