In the last couple weeks VMware has released a whole new line up of VMware 5.0 Cloud products. They then followed up a week later with their new licensing model.
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf
So far there has been nothing but outrage over the new vRAM licensing model that charges customers more money for using more ram in their ESXi hosts. Rather than the traditional STD, ENT, ENT+ with unlimited memory per CPU license, we now are bound to 24GB, 32GB, and 48GB per CPU respectively. This new "vRAM entitlement" is a game changer for virtualization licensing and proves that hypervisor providers will surely lock in their share of the virtualization benefits in the future. Although VMware is the first to head this direction, and will take a lot of heat for it, other vendors will surely follow suit.
