[nylug-talk] [ot] anything happening with VMWARE?

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:20:14PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi lug folks,
> this evening I saw on NBR (PBS stock show), that VMWARE stock went from
> 82 to 56, a 26 pt drop. This seem like something bad is affecting it.
> Can anyone comment on this.

I know almost nothing about stocks and the market, but I wonder if it
has anything to do with the fact that VirtualBox is getting better and
VMWare's free server product seems to be getting worse.  

In general, VirtualBox strikes me as being much faster than VMWare, and
they also have that nice little seamless thing (which basically puts a
Windows task bar on your Linux desktop.

VMWare's server 2.0 beta seems quite cumbersome, and judging from their
forums, the majority of people strongly dislike the new web based
interface.  

I repeat, I know lttle about stocks, but if you'd asked, why is VMWare
becoming less popular, that's the answer I would have given you.  

VirtualBox also seems faster than the older VMWare, the server 1.4
whatever, I think. 

The VMWare workstation has many more sophisticated features from what
I understand, but a great many people simply want to run one or two
Windows apps that either work better than the Linux equivalent or aren't
yet available in Linux. 

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