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While at OSCON 2006, last month, I tried unsuccessfully to wrestle a clear description of the differences between these 2 system virtualization products from the VMWare reps, there. Essentially, all I got was the intended goals for the different applications, of the 2, not the practical differences. I couldn't understand why I would buy the $200 VMWare Workstation over the 0$ VMWare Server. While this excellent chart makes clear some VERY good reasons to go with the free product over the commercial product, it took some hunting to find a reason to go w/ Workstation. Short answer: MUCH better for programmers making changes and needing to roll back to previous snapshots of their work.

Anyway, you get this here, today, because I find it interesting!

Comparison - VMware Workstation 5.5.2 vs Server 1.0.0.pdf (application/pdf Object)