VMware Server: Free entry-level VMware offering

VMware announced today the availability of a free entry-level virtual server (VMware Server) designed to give the VMware product line much more visibility in the market.

This is cool--I've been a big proponent of VMware technologies for a long time--and this move will indeed expose many more people to their technologies. This will also help to defray some of their competition (such as Microsoft Virtual Server)--people will get to know their products, and when they desire the features of the fee-based products, there will be a clear-cut upgrade path.

Personally, I'm very excited about this offering. At Proxima Technology we have a need to put together customized demos that our sales engineers and partners can run, and distributing a fully configured, ready-to-run demo as a VMware virtual server is the perfect way to do that--particularly so now that the end users don't have to actually own VMware to run the demo! Very exciting stuff.