Makes me remember a small support contract had to be created for a customer of mine. My boss forwarded some quickly written "tasks to perform" to an admin to put it in a contract. This admin carefully changed every "occurance of "VM" by the official term "VMware" :-)
Since then I often respond just like Jim "the real VM", or I start directly using "zeeVM" 2010/3/31 Jim Elliott <jelli...@gdlvm7.vnet.ibm.com> > > 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") > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
