When we announced Virtual Iron 3.1's release last month, we knew the market would be interested in a virtualization solution with comparable features to VMware that costs just $499 per socket. Price has been a real obstacle for those who want to virtualize and we felt strongly that our virtualization software shouldn't cost more than the servers they run on. We're not the only ones who feel this way. We've done extensive primary research with both end users and resellers (not to mention IDC, Gartner and others have been saying this for years).

I want to emphasize that our pricing is $499 per socket. We're not hiding additional costs in the fine print and we're not trying to fool you with pricing games. As a founder, you have my word that Virtual Iron will not:

- Oversell you on memory features that ostensibly provide extra virtual servers. We all know this degrades performance and there's little value in that.
- Require you to purchase before seeing our software in action. Our software is available for free download at any time.