You mean VMware isn't a clothing line?? I sometimes spell it VMwear. And like you, Jim - I'm quick to correct anyone who thinks about using just 'VM' to refer to their little upstart virtualization product.
Nothing against VMware itself - they've raised the bar in some ways for some things in the virtualization world and that's always a 'good thing'. I just wish they'd picked different capitalized initials :-( Scott Rohling On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Jim Elliott <jelli...@gdlvm7.vnet.ibm.com>wrote: > > Today the Association for Computing Machinery (of which I have > > been a member since 1970) made the following award: > > > "VMware Workstation 1.0, the Software System Award, for > > bringing virtualization technology to modern computing > > environments, spurring a shift to virtual-machine > > architectures, and allowing users to efficiently run multiple > > operating systems on their desktops." > > > Aside from the "run multiple OSes on the desktop" part, > > shouldn't we be insulted? > > Chip: > > Yes, we should be insulted. I remember being very upset the first > time I heard a VMware employee talk about how they had invented > the idea of server virtualization! Even on x86, VM386 was out > years before VMware (even if it failed in the market). I am still > upset every time I hear someone talk about "VM" when they mean > VMware. My reaction is, I work on the real VM! > > Jim > (aka "Sir Jim the Evangelist") >
