Re: 'Free' licenses
VMware also discounts academic licensing.
Also worth mentioning - Microsoft's prohibitive additional licensing costs for virtual desktops are currently holding up VDI projects (MS VDA tax is close to the cost price of the virtualisation platform - and is annual). MS customers are waiting for the day where there is an alternative to being forced to upgrade Windows desktop and VMware is enabling that also.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
