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

[H. G.]

On 1/29/08, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Oddly enough, I don't think that Virtualbox has nearly 15% of the
penetration
that VMWare has in the "market", if you will.  I'd even venture to say that
its
probably not even close to 7%.

Don't get me wrong: Virtualbox is _NICE_.  Its an excellent free option that
works quite well, and has QEMU compatibility if I remember correctly, but
I doubt that it ever would be the catalyst to a destabilization in VMWare's
stock price.