Thats true when you have 110% job time on 100% time But then ill be a rich guy :)
-------------------------- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 Fax: 972-4-6990098 http://sites.canaan.co.il -------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Omer Zak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "linux ILUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:30 PM Subject: Costs (was: Re: is there a VMware clone ?) > > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > > > I thought about VMware but its expensive for such small task ( im going to > > check new sites ones a week ) so I thought that maybe there are other > > competitors out there for VMware. > > > > Because im not going to use it frequently I don't really need great > > performance. > > > > Any ideas / recommendation ? > > Will you be able to make money from the aforementioned task? > If yes, then VMware should be cost effective. > A license costs $299. Let's say you are a miser and can charge only $30 > per hour of your time, then the cost of VMware is equivalent to 10 hours. > > No matter which solution (VMware, Bochs or flex86) you choose, you'll need > to spend few hours learning and installing it. Let's say you need 5 > hours to read the documentation, install the tool and install your > OS+browsers. Then you already spent the equivalent of $150. (I believe > 10 hours are a more realistic number.) > > Then, say you need to check 4 Web sites once a week. If you need 5 > minutes to check a single site in a fast virtual machine (with VMware) but > 10 minutes in a slower virtual machine, then by using VMware you save 20 > minutes each week. After 30 weeks (7.5 months) you recoup the extra > investment you made in VMware. > > Other considrations which are supported by VMware but I don't know about > the other solutions: > 1. Ability to suspend and resume virtual machines, so you don't need to > waste time waiting for the virtual machine to reboot, is important. > 2. Ease of cloning a virtual machine. So you need to install MS-Windows > only once, and then in each clone, you need only to install its own > browser. > 3. Support of networking, which is good enough to allow your virtual > machines to be connected to the Internet. > --- Omer > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
