> > If you had been honest in the first place, I might have happily paid for > > your products. I have given over $500.00 to VMware because they contribute > > to the open source community, but are honest about what they do and do not > > take and release to it. > VMWare has only a very limited contribution to the open source community and its software is definitely not open source. On top of that I have found (at work) that the free versions of its server software appear to be intentionally broken (performance seriously degrades over time). This was not just on one single server it was on many. After contacting technical support over that the general reaction from their support is that no one should use VMWare server in a production environment you need to buy esx server. And at that time (2 years ago) esx server was more expensive for me then buying additional servers when you consider the cost of the reoccurring cost of the license. I believe it was $750 (or more)/box per year. I just checked and it appears that the price has gone down considerably but I have moved on and replaced all the operations that I used VMWare with at work with true open source solutions (virtual box, xen, vserver and openvz) and they all work and work well at what they do. And when I have problems with either for the most part I get help and not pushed into buying some expensive closed source product. John
