On 01/11/2010 03:27 PM, Bill Arnold wrote: > You don't mention why you moved from VMWare workstation ?
VMWare Workstation is a good product, but Virtualbox gives me everything VMWare Workstation did, and Virtualbox is more open, (eg free), while VMWare Workstation is more proprietary. All I had to do to get Virtualbox going was register my copy with Sun. Virtualbox seemed to be more responsive than VMware Workstation, at least at the time I tested and switched to Virtualbox. At that time I was running VMware Workstation 4.5.9, and was having trouble with it; because, it was no longer being support by the patches needed to work with the latest version, (eg libraries) of Linux, so I moved to Virtualbox. The alternative was to buy a license from VMware for version 5 and version 6 was coming up fast. I didn't need the VMware Workstation upgrades; because, I didn't have any plans on moving to Vista or Windows 7, so buying the upgrades was just another expense that didn't really buy me anything. Virtualbox handles Vista and Windows 7 just fine, if I decide I want to move to them, and Sun has been doing a good job of keeping Virtualbox up to date. Also, Sun had the muscle and talent to really take care of business, like they have with other software products like Java, NetBean, Glassfish, MySQL, PostgreSQL, OpenOffice.org, Opensolaris, etc. I don't know what the Oracle acquisition of Sun is going to do to Sun's products, but Oracle has come out with a statement to the effect they are not going to compete in the low end space with outfits like HP, Dell, and Gateway. Oracle is going big, so I suppose they will focus on competing with the likes of IBM. Sun was big into both hardware and software. It will be interesting to see where Oracle take the acquired Sun product line. Regards, LelandJ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
