[Xastir] Time to discard VMware as an option?

[Ray Wells]

I wonder where Linux would be today if everyone adopted a flash in the 
pan attitude and stuck with Windoze?

We had better not buy a car. After all, the horse has served us well for 
centuries.

Do you see where I'm heading?

Ray vk2tv

Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote:
> Here's my opinion. We, as a group, should only focus on VMware. If 
> individuals want to go and use other virtualization engines, that's 
> fine. The reason is simple.
>
> VMware is by far the leader. It is the only virtualization engine for 
> most of the commercial enterprises and government entities not only in 
> the U.S., but throughout the world.
>
> I am in IT sales and every company and government entity I work with 
> is deploying or has deployed VMware alone.
>
> Why is this important? Simply, you follow the leader. In 25+ years of 
> IT sales I have seen great technologies come and go usually because 
> they could not establish a large market presence. Doesn't mean their 
> technology was inferior to the leader, it just means that they could 
> never get critical mass to keep their product viable.
>
> VMware is clearly the leader and we should stick with the leader since 
> their chance of long term viability is greater than those technologies 
> that are not being widely used.
>
> On another note, someone made a comment about registering an account 
> now in order to download VMware. It used to be that you could download 
> "player" without an account, but you needed to get a serial number to 
> activate Player. Now you don't and that method is preferable to having 
> to enter serial numbers. Once downloaded, you can install at will 
> without needing multiple serial numbers. I much prefer their new method.
>
> JMHO
>
> Duffy
> www.wb8nut.com
>
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