On 10/30/06, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't you feel silly now that VMWare server is free :-P > > I don't know about John, but I got my money's worth out of VMware > Workstation and GSX Server long before the free versions were available.
While I happily deploy some of my clients on the free VMWare Server (or use the VMWare Player for their desktop demos) they are both, as are many free-as-in-beer tools, not the whole picture. For example, without VMWare Workstation or the VMWare Infrastructure (the server side of things) you're going to have problems building and maintaining virtual machines. Or look at snapshots -- a *great* feature in VMWare -- take a snapshot and _then_ apply a MS hotfix for example -- you get one snapshot in VMWare Server. Keep or revert, that's it. Want to collapse all those snapshots into a new build? Too bad. Want to revert back two snapshots? Too bad. The $200 I spent on VMWare Workstation 1.0, and additional few hundred on the upgrades over the past 5 years has been some of the best money I've *ever* spent on tech, hands down. As soon as the VMWare for Mac gets out of beta, my life will be complete :) [Aside -- I know all about Parallels, thanks. And Xen. I'm just looking for a *single* vm image that I can move across all the platforms I work on *and* that has server-deployment tools] -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint (blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258693 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
