Joseph L. Casale wrote: > ESXi, like all vmware products, is highly polished and very reliable. > I am a HUGE fan of Xen, spent a lot of time learning it and I love it. > But don't discount ESXi since it's not open source. So very much off topic but I can't resist :) I like vmware a lot because they have made good products and have been a very long time supporter of linux. I have been using vmware since before 1.0 back in 1999 or maybe late 1998 on linux. In 2003-2005 I used a bunch of VMWare GSX(again on linux), worked well, never let me down. In 2007 I started using ESX 3, so far only used the foundation version not the enterprise, but it's dirt cheap, $999 per 2 sockets, the same exact software was $3750 per 2 sockets a little over a year ago. It's among the most solid pieces of software I've ever used myself. nate