Apple Drops VMware for KVM
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https://virtualizationreview.com/blogs/mental-ward/2015/10/apple-drops-vmwares-esxi-for-kvm.aspx?m=1
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I feel like this was news weeks ago. Everyone was whining about Apple not lowering prices after doing this.
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LOL lower their prices for a 20 million/year savings? that would be what, $0.10 per iPhone sold? even less?
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@Dashrender said:
LOL lower their prices for a 20 million/year savings? that would be what, $0.10 per iPhone sold? even less?
Lol plus that's most likely a whole different cost center than the manufacturing so it would really have nothing to do with prices of items.
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@Dashrender said:
LOL lower their prices for a 20 million/year savings? that would be what, $0.10 per iPhone sold? even less?
Yes, very tiny, and if they only passed all savings on to customers, what would be their incentive for switching?
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@johnhooks said:
https://virtualizationreview.com/blogs/mental-ward/2015/10/apple-drops-vmwares-esxi-for-kvm.aspx?m=1
Old news and actually something to be expected for a long time. Hyper-V was out of game obviously so it was Xen Vs KVM dogfight for 2,5 years...
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Yes, as I had pointed out on another community, I'm quite surprised that they did not opt for Xen over KVM given their 100% UNIX workload. Linux runs extremely well on Xen.
However, Apple is heavily in bed with Red Hat and IBM, which are the two backers of KVM, so they probably got an extreme amount of pressure from their vendors to go this route. I suspect that the decision was purely political, not technical.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
LOL lower their prices for a 20 million/year savings? that would be what, $0.10 per iPhone sold? even less?
Yes, very tiny, and if they only passed all savings on to customers, what would be their incentive for switching?
Exactly. You the consumer have already proven you're willing to pay X, why would/should they lower it? Instead they only care about lowering their expenses and increasing their profits.
