Since we launched Virtual Iron 3.1 last month, we've seen a ton of downloads. Everybody is glad to finally see a viable alternative to VMware and, hey, if it's free, even better.

I was curious what the downloads amounted to, so I did a few calculations. If everybody who downloaded Virtual Iron 3.1 had purchased VMware instead, then $100 million dollars would have been wasted. Since Virtual Iron 3.1 Enterprise has features comparable to VMware's ESX Server and Virtual Center, it's certainly an easy choice to take free -- and, collectively, $100 million dollars have been saved. You're welcome :-)

The Virtual Iron 3.1 Single Server edition is completely free. Download, install and use. You can download it right here and be up and running in less time than it would take you to obtain a purchase order for a competing product. If you ever decide to upgrade to the Enterprise Edition, upgrading is a snap (it is just a license key) and you won't lose any of your virtual infrastructure.

There are other free virtualization products but they are either old, have too many restrictions on how many virtual machines you can run and so on. Our free product has no restrictions -- you can run as many virtual machines as you want and use it in any way you'd like. On top of it all, it is fully compatible with our Enterprise Edition; you're always running the real thing.

Virtualization doesn't get any easier.