Most popular VMWare Virtual Appliances for Web Apps
I have ranked the virtual appliances for App/Web Servers available at the VMWare Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VVAM) as described below. I am going through this exercise to gain an understanding of what types of appliances are popular, who is providing them and what they are composed of. Apart from the serial number in the first column and the computed Rank in the last column, all other data is from the VVAM; the titles are self-explanatory.
Methodology
- I accessed the listings for App/Web Server, sorted them by Rating and cut and pasted the first 100 listing into an Excel spreadsheet.
- The Star rating that is visible on the web page shows up as a decimal fraction in Excel, this is what you see in the Customer Rating column below.
- I computed a Rank for each listing by multiplying the Customer Rating x 100 x the number of ratings for that appliance.
- Finally I sorted the result by the rank to prepare the table that appears below. I have selected the top 25 of 269 appliances
- The virtual appliances are ordered by their rank from the highest to the lowest
- I found it interesting that several appliances that rated a 5 had either one or no user each and the bulk of the ratings are for appliances having 4 and 3 stars.
|
No. |
Web/App Server Virtual Appliance |
What is it used for? |
Customer Rating (R) |
# Ratings (N) |
Rank (R*100*N) |
|
1 |
Internet Privacy Appliance. Encrypts your Internet traffic, hides your IP address, and is easy to setup. |
4.7009 |
448 |
210,600 |
|
|
2 |
A tiny but mighty tcp load balancer |
4.1333 |
132 |
57,200 |
|
|
3 |
Pyle provides you with the python programming language learning environment |
3.9545 |
66 |
26100 |
|
|
4 |
This setup helps make sure that critical machines is as little downtime as possible |
4.0870 |
46 |
18,800 |
|
|
5 |
A virtual machine appliance featuring Fedora (LDAP) Directory Server 1.02 on Fedora Core 5 |
4.0556 |
36 |
14,600 |
|
|
6 |
VM with Fedora Core 5, Apache, and Htdig |
4.2083 |
24 |
10,100 |
|
|
7 |
A platform facilitate the deployment of cluster-aware solaris applications, an ideal test bed for a developer. |
4.0000 |
25 |
10,000 |
|
|
8 |
A simple, feature full, SSL secured, and easy to use FTP server and web interface written in PHP backended by MySQL and ProFTPD. |
3.8750 |
24 |
9,300 |
|
|
9 |
A comprehensive and easy to use web content filtering system |
3.2593 |
27 |
8,800 |
|
|
10 |
Best-of-breed open source network security applications with supporting scripts and a web-based front-end management interface. |
4.0952 |
21 |
8,600 |
|
|
11 |
A mail proxy based on FreeBSD with spam (SpamAssassin) and virus (ClamAV) scanning. Can be used with any existing mail system. |
3.6522 |
23 |
8,400 |
|
|
12 |
Collaboration Server |
4.1500 |
20 |
8,300 |
|
|
13 |
J2EE 1.4 platform app. server,focused mainly on developer productivity; Ideal for Web Services/SOA and Web 2.0-based apps. |
4.1000 |
20 |
8,200 |
|
|
14 |
OBS Webfire, Open Office, Firefox, Apache, Jboss(EJB 3), Eclipse, VNC, MySQL, Games on SuSE 10 |
4.2632 |
19 |
8,100 |
|
|
15 |
A virtual machine designed for testing and fine tuning your web-based applications in a safe environment |
4.0500 |
20 |
8,100 |
|
|
16 |
JBoss appliance, based on FC5 with http installation and managment tools |
4.1579 |
19 |
7,900 |
|
|
17 |
Use this VM to Backup, Restore, or Clone the Hard Disk Drive of any Computer or VM over the Network! |
4.1111 |
18 |
7,400 |
|
|
18 |
Open Source Medical Practice Management Software Appliance |
4.1765 |
17 |
7,100 |
|
|
19 |
A PDF Server providing network shared printers for creating PDF documents |
3.5000 |
20 |
7,000 |
|
|
20 |
Windows 7 is the next release of Microsoft Windows, an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers. |
4.2500 |
16 |
6,800 |
|
|
21 |
Ubuntu based HylaFax Server that allows you to use WinModems for faxing |
4.0265 |
16 |
6,500 |
|
|
22 |
Application Delivery Controller |
4.0000 |
16 |
6,400 |
|
|
23 |
Have your very own wiki website everywhere you go |
3.8125 |
16 |
6,100 |
|
|
24 |
rPath Port 25 Mail Server Appliance |
3.9333 |
15 |
5,900 |
|
|
25 |
LDAP-controlled CentOS server with embedded preconfigured Ubuntu miniDAD clients that “know” how to contact DAD |
4.0000 |
14 |
5,600 |
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