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Also, where are ESXI customers at the enterprise level going to go? Do we really think they're going to magically switch over to HyperV (and get Win admins) or Proxmox (and have a lack of IBM-enterprise level support)?
Funny that you say that. In my personal experience, the degree of support is one of the reasons to switch. Like any large vendor, it takes almost more time to convince them that it there is a problem, then it would take to fix it, if you have the technical skills in house. (That was enough for Google to switch to their own switches). Haven't worked yet with IBM, but if they are of equal level, then I'd rather avoid t…
Let me say it differently - from what company does the CIO procure from so he doesn't get fired because he can't call up a company to support his corporate ERP running on VMs?