VMware to give away virtual machine
 

Virtual machines have gone from being a means of allowing Mac users to play Minesweeper to being a powerful enterprise tool for testing and deploying new production environments. It's also a money saver when it comes to the electricity bill. On the x86 side of the aisle, VMware has long been a favorite of geeks wanting to run multiple operating systems simultaneously, or without partitioning up their drives.

A friend of mine is involved in the implementation of VMware ESX at a large bank; the capabilities of this system are very cool to say the least. very powerfull software.