Incorrect url...

... for VMWare's response. Try this one instead:

http://blogs.vmware.com/virtualreality/2008/02/those-darn-de-1.html

PH writes: Fixed, thanks Ray

VMWare Fanboy

I evaluated all the virtualization platofrms. Performance between Xen and VMware were tops running a mixture of Windows and Linux guests, the rest were all pants. What sets VMWare above Xen (and all the rest) is its management tools. It is literally head and shoulders above all the rest. Actually, that's not even fair to VMWare. Their stuff just works better. The cost per socket dissappears in less than a month when you consider that you can provision a whole mess of servers, enough to constitute a datacenter, in less than a week! Doing this with Xen or any other platform is a joke.

I don't work for VMWare, don't have stock in EMC either. I'm just a tech weasel that has had my workload cut in half, I look like a star with my budget, and I'm able to produce like a team of IT consultants.

If you are doing apples to apples, try comparing VMWare server to Xen. Both are free, and you'll find quickly that the core products are pretty compariable. Throw in ESX on bare metal, VC, HA, DRS, etc,,, Xen falls away pretty quickly.

The author is Laura Didio : enough said

Didio, commonly known as the didiot has a great track record of being abjectly wrong. She was a staunch supporter of SCOX + M$ against FOSS, and look where that went.

At least she's consistent - at being totally wrong, and fawning over M$, who appear to have her bought and paid for. Her opinions are usually valueless, and she has no technical credibility whatsoever.