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Oracle plucks meat from Virtual Iron carcass

Hollerith 1

So they are going to shaft the FBI? 

Paris Hilton

Are they positive they don't want to support VI after their stated deadline.

Sure about that? Sure, sure, sure?

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I, for one, welcome our new icons.

Paris, because she remains honoured.

OUMAN

WE GOT SHAFTED, NO OTHER WAY TO SAY IT... 

Grenade

Orcale is leaving everyone out there with a VI infrastructure in the cold. How can you plan a data center future with no knowledge of the existing products future. We know it will become another product, but why souldn't I just bite the bullet and buy VM Ware and be done with it. If I am going to have to migrate, might as well be now.

James 85

VI Only Read Competitor to VMware 

VI is/was the only real competitor to VMware. It is/was the only one of the ever more commoditised server virtualisation products that offered the full range of server virtualisation solutions: from P2V to operation, HA, DRS and management.

In some cases, because of its requirement to run on newer chips, it offered better performance than VMware.