> I've heard, not so much for Mac emulation of PCs, but for PC emulation
> of multiple PCs (the old IBM ploy -- If somebody is going to take away
> some of our business, it might as well be us!)
Yes, that's the impression I have as well. There's apparently a pretty big
potential market for server virtualization. The benefit to MS is that they
can help their NT 4 customers keep poking along by virtualizing those NT 4
services.
> Is VirtualPC a serious competitor to VMWare ($400 seems awfully high
> for an emulator).
I haven't really used it seriously, but I'm sure it is. That's pretty much
all VMware offers - various virtualization products. So, they have to charge
a decent amount for it if they want to stay in business. Microsoft, on the
other hand, can give it away if they like.
> What do you do with VMware that you are using it more often?
I use it for all sorts of things. I use it for testing older products - some
stuff just doesn't run on Windows Server 2003, for example. I use it for
installing and running things I don't really want installed or run on my
actual computer, such as viruses and the like. I use it for learning about
networking stuff without actually having a network of computers to play
with. For example, last week I wanted to learn how to set up the native
Windows load-balancer service, but didn't want to actually use two machines
to do so - well, I can do that with two concurrent VMware sessions. I also
use it to run Linux.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
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