[Info-vax] VMware

[Alexander Schreiber]

Kerry Main <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of clair.grant---
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>> Sent: December 9, 2019 5:42 AM
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>> Cc: clair.grant at vmssoftware.com <clairgrant71 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] VMware
>> 
>> VBox and kvm are our committed platforms for the V9.0 EAK. We have done
>> debugging on both all along and what works on one works on the other.
>> 
>> Over the past five years I have lost track of the number of times I have
> heard
>> the following. "We run our entire IT shop on VMware, except for VMS which
>> sits over in the corner on a very expensive piece of HW that everyone
> wants
>> to get rid of. Get VMS on VMware and you will have a long life with us."
>> That's why VMware is so important to us.
>> 
>
> Absolutely - as I mentioned, VMware support would be huge.
>
> To put thinks in perspective, I would say that VMware has approx. 90+% of
> the hypervisor market, so their formal support is very important.

Of the "Hypervisor as a product that people are explicitly paying for"
market? Probably. Of the "Hypervisor as part of the basic infrastructure
that people aren't paying attention to" market (aka Cloud)? Not even a
detectable presence, I guess - AWS, Azure and GCP are _huge_ and not built
on VMare.

Kind regards,
           Alex.
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