While I use VMware’s free products – VMware Server and Player – on a daily basis, I’m very much given to wondering whether VMware has a future. As a company, they seem to be surrounded on all sides – Xen and Microsoft’s Viridian are closing in fast on one flank (well, at least Xen is – but I’m sure Microsoft isn’t going to let this opportunity pass by), and I wonder if Solaris Containers, Virtuozzo/OpenVZ and technology like FreeBSD Jails have escaped their blind spot on the other side.
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