{"id":47,"date":"2007-08-30T10:23:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/has-vmware-seen-the-writing-on-the-wall\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T21:25:11","slug":"has-vmware-seen-the-writing-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/has-vmware-seen-the-writing-on-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Has VMWare seen the writing on the wall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualization.info\/2007\/08\/vmware-to-slash-vi3-price-for-smbs.html\">here<\/a>, VMWare is set to slash the pricing for VMWare ESX and VirtualCenter for the SME market &#8211; three copies of ESX and a limited copy of VirtualCenter, for the nice round price of $3k US &#8211; a significant price cut. This is hot on the heels of XenSource&#8217;s new<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xensource.com\/Pages\/purchase.aspx\"> pricing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vmblog.com\/archive\/2007\/08\/15\/wow-they-did-it-citrix-to-enter-server-and-desktop-virtualization-markets-with-acquisition-of-xensource.aspx\">acquisition<\/a> by Citrix (XenSource also has a current promotion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xensource.com\/Pages\/purchase.aspx\">&#8220;buy one, get three&#8221;<\/a> as an introduction to the new XE 4.0 pricing model.)<\/p>\n<p>Has VMWare seen the writing on the wall? They look a bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualization.info\/2007\/08\/vmware-heavily-attacks-citrixxensource.html\">defensive<\/a> at times. Or maybe VMWare has just realised they&#8217;ve neglected the SME market for too long. In NZ especially, most businesses are in the SME bracket, and just can&#8217;t afford VMWare&#8217;s prices &#8211; it&#8217;s cheaper to buy a new server machine in most cases.<\/p>\n<p>Xen Enterprise&#8217;s new price tag of $2.5kUS may be outside their reach as well, but most SMEs don&#8217;t need the enterprise features present in XenSource&#8217;s flagship product. XenServer, at $750 US, fits right in the sweet spot, along with VirtualIron&#8217;s flagship offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen here, VMWare is set to slash the pricing for VMWare ESX and VirtualCenter for the SME market &#8211; three copies of ESX and a limited copy of VirtualCenter, for the nice round price of $3k US &#8211; a significant price cut. This is hot on the heels of XenSource&#8217;s new pricing and acquisition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}