FWIW - My company uses VMWare. It is a good product, but we have found a few frustrations associated with it. Imprivata makes a software product that runs on a proprietary network appliance - a "pizza-box" sized server that normally lives in a company's server room. Naturally the members of the sales gang prefer not to haul these ungainly devices through airports and into taxi cabs...so we have a Virtual Appliance that runs on VMWare. What was supposed to be a turn-key solution has kept this correspondent busy between major product releases, because both the VMWare product and the way our own product runs on VMWare are different enough from expectations to require some in-house documentation. I am writing about it now, in fact. It is a good product that does some neat stuff, but you should go into it expecting a learning curve. Do not expect the turn-key solution that it sounds like. It seems reliable enough, and well-engineered (although the UI is not at all intuitive for sales guys in our experience), but there are enough little "gotchas" to become frustrating if you do not go into it with a sense of exploration and discovery. Ymmv, etc, etc John Sgammato Principal Technical Writer Imprivata, Inc http://www.imprivata.com
-----Original Message----- From: framers-bounces+jsgammato=imprivata....@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+jsgammato=imprivata.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Posada Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 3:57 PM To: List, Framers Subject: Run WinOS (and FM) on a MAC OS X Hi, guys...VMWare is a company owned by my company (EMC), so I thought I'd pass this on. VMWare is signing up beta testers for a version that will run on MAC OS X that will permit the creation of a partition that will allow the running of a Windows (or other) OS. http://vmware.rsc02.net/servlet/campaignrespondent?_ID_=vmwi.1756 "...Mac even more with the ability to simultaneously run any PC OS-Windows, Linux, NetWare and others-on Mac OS X. Switch between operating systems by easily tabbing between applications and share data between the two operating systems by dragging and dropping files on the fly-all without needing to reboot. What's more, you can create virtual machines and run them on other VMware products or run any VMware virtual machine on your Mac." See also: http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/mac.html Just passing on something you might find of interest. John Posada Senior Technical Writer "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is." _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as jsgammato at imprivata.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jsgammato%40imprivat a.com Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
