Yes, Windows bashing. :-)
But VMware is far from the horse....it's more like the car. Your analogy
suggests that VMware is old technology, however it is really state of
the art and being constantly enhanced and made better. I can tell you
that the VMware Player I just installed if far superior to the one I
used just two to three years ago.
I would also suggest that many of the organizations that I have worked
with evaluated the various virtualization technologies and many (not
all, but the many is 90%+) came to the same conclusion, that VMware is
the superior virtualization technology....meaning they chose the car and
not the horse.
There is no real wrong virtualization technology if it works for you.
But if the group is going to support something, doesn't it make sense to
support what many have concluded is the best? The reason it has such
critical mass is not that VMware is open source, not open source, etc.
-- it is because it seems to be better than any other competing product
- including the one from Microsoft, Citrix, Redhat, etc.
Those of you who work in IT probably know the primary virtualization
technology in place at your company. I suspect is most cases it is VMware.
Duffy
www.wb8nut.com
Ray Wells wrote:
I wonder where Linux would be today if everyone adopted a flash in the
pan attitude and stuck with Windoze?
We had better not buy a car. After all, the horse has served us well
for centuries.
Do you see where I'm heading?
Ray vk2tv
Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote:
Here's my opinion. We, as a group, should only focus on VMware. If
individuals want to go and use other virtualization engines, that's
fine. The reason is simple.
VMware is by far the leader. It is the only virtualization engine for
most of the commercial enterprises and government entities not only
in the U.S., but throughout the world.
I am in IT sales and every company and government entity I work with
is deploying or has deployed VMware alone.
Why is this important? Simply, you follow the leader. In 25+ years of
IT sales I have seen great technologies come and go usually because
they could not establish a large market presence. Doesn't mean their
technology was inferior to the leader, it just means that they could
never get critical mass to keep their product viable.
VMware is clearly the leader and we should stick with the leader
since their chance of long term viability is greater than those
technologies that are not being widely used.
On another note, someone made a comment about registering an account
now in order to download VMware. It used to be that you could
download "player" without an account, but you needed to get a serial
number to activate Player. Now you don't and that method is
preferable to having to enter serial numbers. Once downloaded, you
can install at will without needing multiple serial numbers. I much
prefer their new method.
JMHO
Duffy
www.wb8nut.com
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