Comments on: Look Ma, no hardware! JumpBox deployments without software. http://blog.jumpbox.com/2008/12/17/look-ma-no-hardware-jumpbox-deployments-without-software/ Conversations with the people bringing you JumpBox Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:14:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paul Evans http://blog.jumpbox.com/2008/12/17/look-ma-no-hardware-jumpbox-deployments-without-software/comment-page-1/#comment-829 Paul Evans Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:57:29 +0000 http://blog.jumpbox.com/?p=146#comment-829 It is clear that VMWare, Microsoft and Citrix consider this technology to be strategic, i.e., they are investing in anticipation of growth and are evangelizing, although no one seems to have made any money on it so far. VMWare opened the Virtual Appliance Marketplace in 2006 but the downalods for their most popular appliances number a few hundred. , they have not yet crossed the magical threshold of 1000 downloads. A dominant majority of the appliances involve open source software on Linux, primarily because the software licensing considerations do not pose a barrier for the early adopters. The obvious side-effect of this is that there is not much revenue tied to this market today. Until the major software vendors, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, etc., rationalize their licensing, the growth in unit deployments will be driven by open source stacks, like the ones you are composing and publishing. Thanks for seeding the market. Great job! http://sharevm.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/virtual-appliance-a-survey/ It is clear that VMWare, Microsoft and Citrix consider this technology to be strategic, i.e., they are investing in anticipation of growth and are evangelizing, although no one seems to have made any money on it so far. VMWare opened the Virtual Appliance Marketplace in 2006 but the downalods for their most popular appliances number a few hundred. , they have not yet crossed the magical threshold of 1000 downloads.

A dominant majority of the appliances involve open source software on Linux, primarily because the software licensing considerations do not pose a barrier for the early adopters. The obvious side-effect of this is that there is not much revenue tied to this market today. Until the major software vendors, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, etc., rationalize their licensing, the growth in unit deployments will be driven by open source stacks, like the ones you are composing and publishing.

Thanks for seeding the market. Great job!

http://sharevm.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/virtual-appliance-a-survey/

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