On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Lew Wolfgang <wolfg...@sweet-haven.com> wrote: > On 03/07/2010 12:17 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >> Lew, wether you realize it or not, your "innocent question" is PURE FUD. >> >> FUD as in Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt >> >> I reply with the same answer I gave to someone else back in mid-January: > > You need to work on your bedside manner, Fernando. > >> Virtualbox is a DESKTOP virtualization product. > > I never would have guessed! > >> All the Xen derivatives are enterprise-class virtualization products, >> more geared towards server use and command line management. >> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-xen-server-vps-monitoring-commands.html >> >> Virtualbox on the other hand shares the same user base and target >> audience as vmware player and Virtual PC, two other "free" products >> that do not "make money" to their software makers. > > Vmware and Microsoft are, according to most folks, successful. I wouldn't > trust Microsoft as far as I can throw them, but Vmware has a successful > business model and has been around for a long time. Compare this with > VirtualBox. Purchased by a failing Sun, and now folded into a profitable > company with unknown (by us) intentions who just dropped their user's > mailing list. Hm... > >> Yet, I don´t see people asking "what if" FUD questions about Microsoft >> dropping Virtual PC or Vmware dropping "Vmware player". > > Vmware wasn't just purchased! Do you think that anyone would build a > business model relying on VirtualBox at this point? Sure, the OSE version > is open source, but is there a non-Sun community working on maintenance? > There's an excellent chance that if Oracle spits out VirtualBox it > will dry up and blow away. Is this the time to fork the project? I'd > feel much better if the community could both maintain the code and add > USB support. > > Is this FUD? Don't get me wrong, I'll continue to use VirtualBox myself > and for my clients as long as I can. I wish Oracle well too, and hope > that if they drop the product that they'll release the USB bits too.
Yes, Lew, this is FUD. Forking only occur as a measure of last resort (after bad things happen), or if there are disagreement between core developers for the future direction of the project. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
