I am sure many of you who read my blog are already aware of Microsoft releasing Virtual PC for free today. This is great news as it will allow me to beta test products I have been very wary to do so because I did not to ruin my production machine. However, I have also found out that VMWare has also released their VMWare Server for free today as well. This is beginning to look a lot like the browser wars of the mid 90's.

You can download the Microsoft Virtual PC here.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D58729D-DFA8-40BF-AFAF-20BCB7F01CD1&displaylang=en

You can find out more information about the VMWare Server release here.

http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/server.html

You can download VMWare server here.

http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

What does this mean to you and me? A whole lot as the cost of hardware is relatively cheap and now you can fully use all your resources of each server. I know of several very large companies that run their production web servers on VMWare servers, I am not going to tell you who as that could be a potential security breach for them. However though this does tell you the robustness of these products.