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VMWare getting worried?

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Created on 22 July 2008
Written by Steve Burrows

I have noticed that I am getting an increasing volume of sales calls from resellers of VMWare - a disproportionate number, the chances are now around 50:50 that when an IT salesman calls me, it is to discuss virtualisation, and the product is VMWare. Are they running out of prospects? or am I merely being targeted more because the bigger fish have already been taken?

Dunno, either way, we are doing / have done virtualisation, and we're not using VMWare, instead we're using Oracle VM. It seems just as comprehensively functional, it works, and best of all, Oracle are giving it away. It's free. Support is chargeable of course, but (initially at least) Oracle are not asking for a fortune, the fees are quite modest. I cannot help but wonder if the very effective product and competition that Oracle are providing in the virtualisation sector is going to undermine VMWare, and if their recent marketing frenzy reflects that?

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