RE: VMWare is Finally Free

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

VMware Server has been free for the download for about 8 - 9 months now.

 It's awesome, I HIGHLY recommend downloading it then buying the BIGGEST support contract that VMware has.  OH, and 
make sure all your friends buy support contracts too!  And have their friends by contracts, and so on and so on :-)

VMware is super awesome terrific tasty and not bad!!!  ;-) 


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 

EMC ² Corporation    <=====  Owns the entire VMware company, in case someone didn't know :-) 

4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 
 

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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:55 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] VMWare is Finally Free

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Via ha.ckers.org.

[snip]

I'm not a huge fan of virtualization in production environments (feels an
awful lot like putting all your eggs in one basket and slowing everything
down in the process) but you cannot beat it for testing.

Today I found out that VMWare server is now free for download. Their major
upsell is service contracts and add-ons, but if you don't tend to use
that or need it for testing and you run Windows but want to run other
operating systems or perform potentially dangerous tests, this is the
software for you.

[snip]

More:
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070111/vmware-is-finally-free/

- ferg



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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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