Archive for July 23rd, 2008

ESX For Free!!

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Virtualization.info reported today that VMware will give ESXi away completely free.

I have no idea how much revenue was brought in by ESXi, but I’d imagine compared to ESX proper it was a small proportion.  Nonetheless it is going to be a big shot in the arm for virtualisation proliferation.

A great move I think, as it will cause Microsoft a little concern that companies will use this as a shoe in to a far superior product.

It’s not free yet, but should be at the end of the month, according to virtualization.info.