Coffin Michael C wrote:
Hi Chris,
Well, that's pretty clear - so my question should have been simple to
answer. But no, they didn't give me THAT link (in fact, drilling down from
their Home page I cannot get to THAT page at all) - first they gave me:
Sadly, the VMware staff is more interested in supporting their product
running on Windoze at the host platform (why is a mystery to me, it runs
much slower under W2K than it does under Linux). I will agree that
VMware has failed to see their full potential. It may well be that if
they REALLY get serious, they'll hit Microsoft just a little too hard
below the belt... and well, you know what happens to companies that
do that.
Of course, my guess is that Microsoft has had VMware in its sights for
a while... the date of their destruction has probably already been
set. Just a matter of Microsoft throwing the switch.
If that plan includes Microsoft taking over VMware ... the hosted
Linux VMware will be pulled as a product offering... guaranteed.
I just wish that VMware would GPL the stuff before their demise to
prevent it from forever being locked into the Microsoft Vault of Shame.
