Posts by Daniel Owen 1

license difference

It's important to remember that if you want to "get the most" from your license that the retail license can legally be moved from machine to machine when you upgrade hardware but the OEM copies are tied to the box. If you are one of those people who likes to upgrade hardware every couple of years or who buys crap hardware that breaks every couple of years shrink wrapped copies are cheaper.

available in the US for years

I have seen pre-boiled eggs in the deli for years here in the US. They are always sitting in little plastic bags looking kind of disgusting so at least the packaging is an improvement.

Virtualron

Virtual Iron had a nice product and the price was fair. I did an eval of virtualization products last year and VI was probably the best bang for the buck at the time (pre Citrix price changes) from a cost for features I wanted standpoint. I work for a SME and that is really where VI seemed to be putting their emphasis unlike VMware who seems to love the huge enterprise and not scale down so well.

Ultimately I decided that virtualization was too important to the company to place my faith in the hands of a startup that could easily go out of business or get bought. I'm feeling pretty good about that decision now.

I do find it funny that if you read many of the blog posting from VI's execs from late 2008 it was all VMware bashing. I guess they will have to change that. Actually I’m sure VMware will just fire the VI team since they are truly and completely redundant now. Hopefully a few of the better engineers will get picked up by Citrix or another XEN vendor.