[Xastir] Time to discard VMware as an option?

[Ray Wells]

Actually, no, but there are viable alternative in many situations, and 
just because a particular application hasn't been around for a long time 
doesn't mean it should be given some consideration.

I still use Windows in those situations where there is no Linux 
alternative; why else would I have it in a VB? I do a lot of audio 
processing and, when it comes to noise reduction, the Windows product 
wins hands down.

No, sir, not Windows bashing.

I've et some pretty smart horses :-)

Ray vk2tv

Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote:
> Yes, Windows bashing. :-)
>
> But VMware is far from the horse....it's more like the car. Your 
> analogy suggests that VMware is old technology, however it is really 
> state of the art and being constantly enhanced and made better. I can 
> tell you that the VMware Player I just installed if far superior to 
> the one I used just two to three years ago.
>
> I would also suggest that many of the organizations that I have worked 
> with evaluated the various virtualization technologies and many (not 
> all, but the many is 90%+) came to the same conclusion, that VMware is 
> the superior virtualization technology....meaning they chose the car 
> and not the horse.
>
> There is no real wrong virtualization technology if it works for you. 
> But if the group is going to support something, doesn't it make sense 
> to support what many have concluded is the best? The reason it has 
> such critical mass is not that VMware is open source, not open source, 
> etc. -- it is because it seems to be better than any other competing 
> product - including the one from Microsoft, Citrix, Redhat, etc.
>
> Those of you who work in IT probably know the primary virtualization 
> technology in place at your company. I suspect is most cases it is 
> VMware.
>
> Duffy
> www.wb8nut.com
>
> Ray Wells wrote:
>> 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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