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by mac-chaffee 1641 days ago
> In particular, traditional legacy IT infrastructures are ridiculously overpriced. (If you're using commercial virtualization platforms and/or SAN storage, then you're overpaying by as much as a factor of 10, and getting an inferior product into the bargain

Could someone elaborate? Is this saying something free like OpenStack would be better than something paid like VMware? Is that really common knowledge?