> I understand that vmware has much stronger marketing machine, however that > does not mean that their technology is somehow better. Their offer is a > reasonable choice for many scenarios in IT, mass web hosting is > unfortunately not one of them. As any competent admin will tell you, use > the right tool for the right job. It's good to have choice. You can't honestly be comparing a 2.6b / year corporation that sells/develops enterprise scale products that serve nearly all of the Fortune 500 to a virtually unknown product sold by the maker of Parallels. They are not even close to being in the same league.