Subj : Re: Proxmox 8 is out...
To   : Tracker1
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jul 13 2023 08:03:00

-=> Tracker1 wrote to Digital Man <=-

 Tr> Ahh, I wasn't aware of it.  Seems like a really weird pairing.

It feels like someone looking at VMWare's management and business, and
thinking they could do better. My gut feeling is that VMWare is going to
narrow their focus to large enterprises (since they stated that 80
percent of their revenues come from a tiny fraction of their customers)
and drop the less lucrative businesses.

To be fair, VMWare has a lot of product lines, and I'm sure some of them
aren't as profitable as large enterprise bare-metal virtualization.
Whether or not they could whittle down the product line and increase
market share in the large enterprise market remains to be seen. Cloud
should be eating their lunch right now, I know they have some hybrid
cloud offerings that are hoping to cash in on the cloud.

If I were working with another start-up, I'd seriously look at bare
QEMU or Proxmox (or OpenStack, or XCP-NG) for on-prem virtualization.
Cheap, solid, and supported. Harder to pass executive muster, though -
all CIOs know VMWare.


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