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VMware To Give Away Hypervisor
7/23/2008
Senior Director of Product Marketing Bogomil Balkansky said that the price for ESX will not be reduced, but that it shouldn't matter to customers, because ESXi is the future. "We've made it clear that our future architectural direction is ESXi," Balkansky said, adding that both products are "completely functionally equivalent." The price of VI, VMware's suite of infrastructure products, will not change, he said.
Balkansky denied that making ESXi free was a direct response to Microsoft. "There's an inclination to interpret it that way, but I think this is a very logical move for us, given that we have a tried and true record" of making products free after a time. For instance, GSX Server (renamed VMware Server) was made free in 2006. "The timing has more to do with product release schedules and priorities, rather than what a competitor may be doing," he said.
Still, Balkansky added, there is "no question that making it free gives us an advantage and levels the playing field."
Maritz also mentioned several other new areas in which VMware will be aggressive, including extending its reach more strongly into the Asia Pacific region, and becoming more active in "the cloud", which means accessing resources over the Internet. That, perhaps, isn't surprising, since Maritz' former company, Pi Computing, was cloud-focused. Pi was bought by VMware last February. VMware, Maritz said, will "have a lot of relevance in the cloud, and as an on-ramp into the clouds."
Keith Ward is online news editor for the Redmond Media Group. You can contact him at kward@1105media.com.
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